Docile Bodies

is a wearable sculpture installation which examines the feminine body as an object of control. Manipulating brass rods into soft, yet constraining adornments, Anastasia Pindera contrasts the body image of the wearer with imposed control. Pindera’s metalworks stand alone as sculptural objects as they beckon the human form. The meaning is created when the metal and flesh meet, she uses photography to document this uncomfortable encounter. She visually elaborates on the ideas of intellectual, Michel Foucault, as she explores how we control ourselves through disciplinary practices and their capacity to create 'docile bodies' or in extreme manifestations, disorders like anorexia. Through the guise of adornment, Pindera investigates the relationship between not only the body and the adornment but the wearer and the viewer.