| Artist(s): | Christina Yarmol |
| School: | York University |
| Province: | Ontario |
| Title of the work: | Flexible Embodiment |
| Medium/Media: | Postal elastics, acrylic mannequin form suspended by wire hanger, magnetic handbag claps, Sculpture 54” long is 14” across and is 5” inches in thickness/width
Photographs 1 and 2: Christina Yarmol, Critical Disability Studies Ph D candidate, York University, Flexible Embodiment, April- May 2019, Postal elastics, acrylic mannequin form suspended by wire hanger, magnetic handbag claps, Sculpture 54” long is 14” across and is 5” inches in thickness/width |
| Artist Statement: | Flexible Embodiment was inspired by the readings of feminist critical disability theorists Margarit Shildrik (2015), Judith Butler (1993), and Susan Wendell (1996) who all address questions of embodiment. These philosophers posit that many of society’s social constructions and policies are organized with unacknowledged ablest assumptions about neglecting the basic human needs of what many people require to participate fully in the societies in which they live (Wendell, 1996, p. 39). |
Kimberley Lewis