The Burka
Micha Bentel | 2018 | Industrial Design & Engineering
This is my effort to understand and interpret the experience of women compelled by law or personal faith to conceal their bodies in such a way as to render them sexless in the eyes of their male counterparts. This is in no way meant as a critique of a lifestyle or cultural form. Instead, it is a representation of my own effort to reconcile the genetic and biomorphic universality of the female with the instances in which that image is transformed by society. This one of a group of sculptures in which I investigate this relationship of the female form to its social meaning. This, it seems to me, is all about our perception of “neighbors” who are, at their core, just like us but who, by virtue of culture and environment, may have acquired behavior patterns which make them strangers to us.
Micha Bentel | 2018 | Industrial Design & Engineering
This is my effort to understand and interpret the experience of women compelled by law or personal faith to conceal their bodies in such a way as to render them sexless in the eyes of their male counterparts. This is in no way meant as a critique of a lifestyle or cultural form. Instead, it is a representation of my own effort to reconcile the genetic and biomorphic universality of the female with the instances in which that image is transformed by society. This one of a group of sculptures in which I investigate this relationship of the female form to its social meaning. This, it seems to me, is all about our perception of “neighbors” who are, at their core, just like us but who, by virtue of culture and environment, may have acquired behavior patterns which make them strangers to us.
Fiberglass, steel, fishing line, LED Lights, Urethane Resin
