Paloma Proudfoot's 'Threaded' explores the duality of beauty and grotesqueness through a disembodied hand and an exposed spinal cord, challenging historical representations of female agency.
The hands in Proudfoot's sculptures manipulate female bodies, representing a shift from traditional depictions of passivity to a powerful assertion of agency in contemporary art.
Proudfoot's work reflects on the paternalistic origins of hypnotherapy, subverting traditional narratives by replacing male hands with severed female ones, emphasizing their control and agency.
In a contemporary movement against the objectification of female and queer bodies, representations of women's hands are emerging as symbols of power, countering historical depersonalization.
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