RESPONSES (To Things I've Been Told About My Body)
2nd - 30th June, 2023
Cooke Latham Gallery, London UK
 
 

Lisa Marie Harris RESPONSES CookeLathamGallery

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Images courtesy Cooke Latham Gallery
 
 
 

Release courtesy Cooke Latham Gallery: The exhibition is comprised of wall-mounted reliefs, sculptures and film which are presented as a provocative rebuttal of the unrelenting body shaming, body policing, and sexual objectification faced by women. Unpicking the often-contradictory rebuffs and slurs the artist first received during her pre-pubescent childhood in Trinidad – attacks which persisted to her present state as a mother in London – the works respond to and invert this negative catalogue of comments in sly, bombastic and uncanny ways. In so doing, Harris questions the agentic denials that underpin the hyper-vigilant monitoring of women’s bodies by men and women alike: the intergenerational plight of ‘sexual protection’ enforced within the familial space, the shaming within the friendship space, and the commoditisation of the female body within wider society.

Lisa Marie Harris RESPONSES, Cooke Latham Gallery, London UK

Lisa Marie Harris RESPONSES, Cooke Latham Gallery, London UK

Lisa Marie Harris RESPONSES, Cooke Latham Gallery, London UK

Lisa Marie Harris RESPONSES, Cooke Latham Gallery, London UK

Lisa Marie Harris RESPONSES, Cooke Latham Gallery, London UK