Submission Sculpture

Isabella Covert

Permeating a paradoxical allure with materials like latex and hair, my work serves as a surrogate for the body and the afflictions of bodily containment. They violate rules imposed upon materials - tampering with tactile relationships that promote rapid aging and festering. I work in a space of untangling entrails and autopsying contradictions. Shedding my skin, picking scabs, and excreting the self, I scratch at the relationship of the reproducing body and the structural tendencies they exist in.
These forms challenge the biopolitics of bodies as subordinated vessels for collective future, suggesting an alternative posthuman relationship between power and reproduction. Drawing from feminist reconfigurations of the body as potentialities beyond margins, these anatomies are birthed from the gut and play in the viscera.


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Isabella Covert

Permeating a paradoxical allure with materials like latex and hair, my work serves as a surrogate for the body and the afflictions of bodily containment. They violate rules imposed upon materials – tampering with tactile relationships that promote rapid aging and festering. I work in a space of untangling entrails and autopsying contradictions. Shedding my skin, picking scabs, and excreting the self, I scratch at the relationship of the reproducing body and the structural tendencies they exist in.
These forms challenge the biopolitics of bodies as subordinated vessels for collective future, suggesting an alternative posthuman relationship between power and reproduction. Drawing from feminist reconfigurations of the body as potentialities beyond margins, these anatomies are birthed from the gut and play in the viscera.