THE GLOVED BRIDE

A woman dressed in white, made up with lipstick, adorns herself with kitchen gloves. Photographed during a performance – hence the choice of the photographic blur – an erotised bride takes shape and meaning around the green of her hands and the veil that clothes her like an extravagant ghost.

The body, both as plastically wrought and as a support for personal writing, is the place where we can read the experiences of our relationship with the world. As a surface for exchange and communication, it reveals how it will be suppressed, trivialised, recognised or loved.

A character in a dream world hovering between the clandestine and the exposed,
THE GLOVED BRIDE questions us about the socialised bodies of women and the persistence of stereotypes that bear on them.