BODY PIECE is an installation combining abstract sculptural forms with figurative video projection. Positioned as a refusal of the commodified female body, the work distorts and fragments the feminine form into misaligned shapes that resist the boundaries of idealised beauty. Through this distortion, BODY PIECE critiques the objectification of women’s bodies under patriarchy and embraces multiplicity, imperfection, and feminist resistance. The installation becomes both a personal and political confrontation with the construction of femininity, control, and bodily expression through sculpture, gesture, and moving image.
My practice explores immersive multimedia environments where material, gesture, and atmosphere work subtly to question and reflect on patriarchal norms. Through lived experience as a young woman, I’ve become increasingly aware of how ideals of beauty are used to rank and control women. These realisations often emerge through the process of making itself, beginning intuitively and revealing their meaning over time. This trust in process allows my work to merge thought and embodiment, transforming personal reflection into feminist critique. Drawing on strategies of abjection and the grotesque, I seek to reclaim the female form as a site of resistance, agency, and transformation.
rubi.c.tay@gmail.com