Description

This pair of sculptural pink high heels uses exaggeration, satire, and bodily symbolism to explore the complex power dynamics embedded within gender, sexuality, and objectification. Each shoe is adorned with contrasting anatomical forms: phallic heels support the delicate feminine silhouette, while one shoe bears a sculpted clitoris at its pointed front and the other testicles, creating a confrontation between symbols of male and female sexuality. The glossy pink surface evokes glamour, desire, and hyper-femininity, while the surreal bodily distortions disrupt the seductive aesthetic with humour and unease.
Balancing playfulness with critique, the work questions how femininity is constructed through performance, consumption, and patriarchal expectations. The shoes become unstable monuments to sexual politics—objects that both celebrate and challenge the complexities of pleasure, identity, and control. Through ceramic transformation, the familiar fashion object is reimagined as a provocative site of resistance, vulnerability, and embodied power.