works
project
wrong vessels
the perfect female
oil on canvas
illustrations
graphic design & art publications
exhibitions
press
xhyshavonne@gmail.com
works
project
wrong vessels
the perfect female
oil on canvas
illustrations
graphic design & art publications
exhibitions
press
xhyshavonne@gmail.com
Her work is grounded in queer theory, cyborg feminism and speculative theory. These frameworks shape how she approaches a set of overlapping questions: how female and queer identities are produced and policed, how technology rehearses and reinforces norms around the body, and what forms of agency emerge between humans and machines. Practice, for her, is how these questions get tested rather than illustrated; each project pulls in the material it needs, whether that is clay, fabricated sculptural objects, or systems built from code and hardware.
In The Perfect Female, she constructs a fictional biotech company, AnKang Bio™, whose body implants are staged as sculptural propositions. Adopting the voice of a product designer operating within patriarchal norms, the work exposes the logic of systems that encode control as care. Wrong Vessels, developed through her ceramic practice, embeds vulva forms into hand-thrown vessels and lets cracking, warping and glaze runs remain as finished conditions. The logic by which ceramic specimens are judged acceptable or rejected shares its structure with the disciplining of women's bodies. The project is now entering a second phase in which metal and kinetic elements are introduced, extending the work from the vessel alone to the systems that hold, constrain and act upon it.
Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London
2021 - 2022 | Graduate Diploma in Art & Design
Royal College of Art, London
2016 – 2020 | BFA Communications Design
Pratt Institute, New York
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