Pedestals and Pieces

Description

This sculptural pair of white heeled shoes merges fashion with fragmentation, each adorned with a woman’s torso in place of ornament. The stark white evokes purity and perfection—ideals historically imposed on women—while the absence of a head, arms, and legs reduces the female form to a passive, consumable object. By placing the torso at the forefront of the heels, the work critiques how femininity is often aestheticized, commodified, and literally walked on. The shoes, symbols of status and desirability, become instruments of dehumanization, forcing viewers to confront the everyday violence hidden beneath glamorized surfaces. “Pedestals and Pieces” challenges us to consider what is left of a woman when her value is defined solely by how she appears.