Born Into It

Description

Bright, cheerful yellow clashes with the eerie presence of two sculpted baby arms, clinging to a high-heeled shoe not made for movement, but for performance. Born Into It explores the inheritance of gendered expectations. How even from birth, femininity is something imposed, shaped, and carried. The baby arms, both tender and unsettling, speak to generational cycles of social conditioning: the weight of beauty, the pressure to nurture, and the early internalization of what a woman “should” become. 

This work asks: at what point does the performance begin? And who benefits when girlhood is handed stilettos instead of freedom?