CAITLYN CLESTER
  • Installation
    • In my body, in my bones
    • Learn how to carry myself
    • I used to whisper violent words to my scars
    • Flesh as Commodity
    • 3734
    • 1 in 5
  • Performance
    • I wonder if they believed me
    • 40lbs
    • Untitled (Under the skin))
    • Boys will be boys
  • Photography
    • in search of authenticity (Ongoing)
    • Ungentle
    • Summer 1975
    • I am safe to expand
    • Violence abstracted
    • When will it be over?
    • Environmental Portraits
    • Untitled, intentionally
    • Disfigured perceptions of the self
    • Gushing Gold
    • Dopamine
  • Book
    • Do you ever touch yourself so aggressively that you shake?
    • Unlearning Violence
  • Curatorial
  • Commercial
  • CV
40 lbs​, 2018
Flat screen tv/Ipad, 40 lb compression blanket

seeking warmth in a space that rejects you
rejecting a space that you built to protect you
40 lbs is a weight that has attached to me, made its way under my skin. It burdens my body but also provides it comfort, warmth, safety. I want to stay and burrow myself into the weight I have put on, but I want to escape and run away from it. I want it to be accessible when I need it, but detachable when I don't. Something I can put on when I am in the company of men, but take off in the company of myself.
How do I create a body that is safe from others’ violence, and safe from my own?

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  • Installation
    • In my body, in my bones
    • Learn how to carry myself
    • I used to whisper violent words to my scars
    • Flesh as Commodity
    • 3734
    • 1 in 5
  • Performance
    • I wonder if they believed me
    • 40lbs
    • Untitled (Under the skin))
    • Boys will be boys
  • Photography
    • in search of authenticity (Ongoing)
    • Ungentle
    • Summer 1975
    • I am safe to expand
    • Violence abstracted
    • When will it be over?
    • Environmental Portraits
    • Untitled, intentionally
    • Disfigured perceptions of the self
    • Gushing Gold
    • Dopamine
  • Book
    • Do you ever touch yourself so aggressively that you shake?
    • Unlearning Violence
  • Curatorial
  • Commercial
  • CV