In this new body of work, Slappey utilizes her talent for hyperrealist images of body parts to explore historical and almost immutable positions that have been anchored by art history in our perception and vision of not only the body but our position within society.
Placing us simultaneously as spectators and voyeurs, the artist creates a space for the viewer that is imperceptibly uncomfortable. Bodies reminiscent of Bernini's sculptures are depicted sanctioned and pierced by hard metal, sometimes initially inoffensive but also in more brutal forms by rebar and construction tools.
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