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Fireworks

Xiaoshuo Deng

Title: Flower and Fire
Production Date:2022
Materials: Wooden board, stockings, acrylic
Size: 15x15cm

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The "foot" is the part of the body that reveals the true emotions of people, and is also the private part of women in traditional Asian culture. "From bondage to liberation to the high heels worn by professional women today, the foot has become a reflection of the awakening of women's power. High heels have naturally become a symbol of women's power.


And what do high heels mean for women? The identity symbol behind the high heels may be lost in the home, but wearing high heels can be a new "shackle", from the male gaze behind the seduction to the malicious infatuation, the sense of shame and inferiority that many women feel from the pressure of living in the space, and putting on the "shackles" of life. "It is by living in 'chains' that we can have more of a voice in the cracks.


I would like to visualise women's emotions in society by using high heels to illustrate the invisible oppression of women's space in contemporary society from the perspective of personal history.

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