Mutinous Bodies reflects on what it means to inhabit a body that can feel unstable and unpredictable. Impermanence, decay and mortality are not exceptional states, but fundamental parts of human experience. Each portrait is held within a deep white border, creating a sense of isolation. Yet displayed together, the six works form a quiet collective: separate bodies, connected through shared experiences of uncertainty and impermanence. Alone, but together.
Women account for 80% of all autoimmune cases. There is a gender bias in the unknown quality of these illnesses. By confronting the politics of gender, representation and the medically unexplained, she hopes to shift topics often surrounded by stigma and shame, bringing them into the cultural conscience.
As journalist Charlotte Jansen writes:
“Autoportraits: Mutinous Bodies challenges conventional ideas of the portrait, of who has the authority to represent illness, and how. The individual images can also be seen as a collective chorus, an act of solidarity.”
