Katelyn Truong
Un-Inhabiting the Body
Illustration
2022
The spirit/essence of a woman breaking from historic forms of ideal feminine beauty, that has been perceived and sculpted by the male gaze.
“This piece focuses on the freedom of her raw spirit/essence/soul outside the existence of her physical, superficial body/vessel. The feeling of being “more-than” or “just-viewed as” an object. Breaking the conceptional view of these “ideal” figures of femininity that is often sexualized and racialized. ”
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Katelyn Truong
Illustration
“Living a Feminist Life, is based on the lived-experiences of women, and inspired by Sara Ahmed’s book. Through practices of re-inhabiting the body, by means of; rejecting gender binaries, taking up...” [More]