‘you wanted a body so i gave you mine’
Giclee Prints, Polaroids, Dirty Clothes & Black Biro on Wall
2025
@ Stertford Mall for ‘Militia’
Inspired by the artist’s poem, “EAT ME”, this piece explores the violence and vulnerability of being desired. Drawing on Margaret Atwood’s notion of the internalised gaze and Pateince Agbabi’s visceral poem of the same name, this work confronts what it means to be consumed: visually, emotionally and sexually.
By occupying a corner of the abandoned Boots Chemist at Stretford Mall in Manchester, with fragmented images, archival polaroids and dirty clothes and underwear piled together, the artist constructs a space where the self begins to unravel under the weight of being watched.