Relics of the Body and Spirit, 2026
130cm x 200cm
ceramic fertility statues, canvas and cotton poppets, pins, cayenne, pepper
Emulating a museum display, this series of ceramic fertilty statues was made to reclaim the place of queer sexuality in history. Doyle identifies that “homophobic institutions have had a profound impact on art and literary history: they have indisputably ‘hidden’ sex stories from view- actively suppressing, for example, the fact of artists’ homosexuality, censoring openly homoerotic content.” [1] These statues present the queer body and experience as a vital, undismissable part of history.
[1] Jennifer Doyle, “SEX OBJECTS: Art and the Dialectics of Desire (Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2006) pp.xix-xxi