Ruby Sgueglia

I WISH WE WERE PERFECT FOR EACH OTHER BUT THEN WE WOULDN’T BE OURSELVES

A cross-disciplinary exploration of the idea of a coalition politic as it is defined by Donna Haraway in her Cyborg Manifesto.

The literal form of the work is a metonym for this coalition in the ways various mediums, dimensions, and textures function as a whole, a whole that can only exist because of the difference of its parts.

Caraways coalition politics posits the idea that communities are stronger when they are organized with intention and solidarity instead of physiological similarities within a group. Simply speaking, we are stronger when we stand together in solidarity as individuals than we are when we are divided by characteristics out of our control. The work rejects “natural” groupings of materials and every element intends to do nothing but draw attention to its particular materiality while the work as a whole presents itself as a cohesive, closed unit. There is power in the act of being aware of your community, in believing that to work together, to care for or fight for a group of people does not necessitate any erasure of the complexities of our bodies and our origins. More than one thing can be true at the same time.

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