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Shapeshifter

Kosek, Kate
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Where is the line between art and craft? “You can be anything you want to be,” they say, “You can have it all!” Shapeshifter is a playful manipulation of form and language pertaining to my perspective as a woman who creates textile sculptures that question the gendered hierarchies within art and craft. Humor and intuition allow me to reclaim power through cute, colorful, and decorative artworks that satirize the dominant narratives surrounding women’s work and leisure. Shapeshifter plays with the stereotypes of gender, labor, and aesthetics within art history to imagine a world where objects like pyramids and scrunchies are free to assume their own identity and use value. It is a metaphor for the way I adapt in order to assert myself and survive in a male-dominated, capitalist world.

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2023-05-04
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Research Projects
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Art, Craft, Play, Gender, Labor, Aesthetics
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