Contemporary Artists Are Liberating the Body from Restrictive Ideals
Emily Steer, Artsy, 11 Jul 2023
Human bodies are constantly subjected to restricting cultural ideals. Categories like gender, race, and sexual expression create narrow definitions, and pressure to follow them. It’s this pressure for bodies to conform that supports discriminatory systems like ableism and objectification. In recent years, artists have rallied against this, creating liberated expressions of the physical form.
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