Sacrificial conformity
Year: 2025
Material/Technique: Iron
Size: 13.5 × 8 × 18 cm
Edition: Unique
Signed:Not Set
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About the Work
- Year
- 2025
- Material/Technique
- Iron
- Size
- 13.5 × 8 × 18 cm
- Edition
- Unique
- Signed
- Not Set
- Regarding sales
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- Frame
- Not Included
- Work Certificate
- Not Set
- Distributor of artworks
- Mai Muraguchi
- Ship-from Area
- Abroad
- Days Until Dispatch
- Not Set
- Category
- Sculpture
- Style
- Conceptual, Gender
Work Details
This work seeks to expose the social structure in which women are expected to be “beautiful.”
The high heel, often celebrated as a symbol of glamour and elegance, is also an object that imposes strain and pain on the body.
With its thorn-studded form, this shoe magnifies that duality and materialises the “sacrifice demanded for beauty.”
It questions how we become bound by the gaze of others, and how, at times, we submit to pain in order to comply with beauty.
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Artist
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I am a London-based multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, installation, and moving image using materials including metal, silicone, clay, language, and sound. My practice explores how idealised images of women become internalised, shaping the body, memory, perception, and behaviour.
Having spent many years in Tokyo, Japan, I experienced a culture where bodies are judged by appearance, women's bodies are treated as objects of consumption, and everyday sexual violence is often overlooked through silence. These values are reinforced through advertisements, magazines, urban space, social media, and daily conversations, gradually embedding themselves within both consciousness and the body.
Drawing on personal experiences, memories, and silenced words, I examine how social signifiers come to feel like one's own thoughts and desires. Through my work, I make visible the invisible structures that shape our sense of self and question the assumptions we accept as natural.
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