{"id":320792,"date":"2025-11-27T02:04:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T02:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/when-the-body-becomes-armour-soft-weapons-challenges-the-gaze\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T02:04:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T02:04:43","slug":"when-the-body-becomes-armour-soft-weapons-challenges-the-gaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=320792","title":{"rendered":"When the Body Becomes Armour: soft weapons Challenges the Gaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In a massive 6,000-square-foot commercial space, <em>soft weapons: Keep Your Fucking Hands Off My Body<\/em>,<em> <\/em>curated by Cassandra Neyenesch and <a href=\"https:\/\/awomensthing.org\/blog\/lydia-nobles\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"16612\">Lydia Nobles<\/a>, opens with \u201cThank God For Abortion\u201d (2019) regalia by artist Viva Ruiz. The otherworldly costumes featured in the exhibition are reminiscent of superheroes and are the ultimate introduction to this world of bodily autonomy, personal narrative, and unabashed feminist expression. This 29-person group exhibition acts as a form of hope and resistance as well as a celebration of the body in all its forms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>These otherworldly costumes are the ultimate introduction to this world of bodily autonomy, personal narrative, and unabashed feminist expression<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The body, as the central focus of <em>soft weapons<\/em>, appears in two primary ways: the grotesque and the glamorous. Body horror and body fantasy. The grotesque comes through in Courtney Cone\u2019s fleshy, amorphous sculptures, which rest on, slump under, or hang over crude tables. One wears stockings, ripped at the crotch; hair comes out of another\u2019s orifice. Inspired by her experience of incarceration, the pieces look bruised and alien, yet human enough to trigger a visceral response. Anna Ting M\u00f6ller\u2019s \u201cBone 1, Bone 2\u201d (2024) resembles bones wrapped in skin stitched taut; the \u201cskin\u201d is made of the kombucha scoby central to her practice. Another iteration of the scoby, \u201cPeril\u201d (2023), hangs across the gallery like drying cured meat. In M\u00f6ller\u2019s hands, the scoby, or \u201cmother,\u201d takes on a corporeal form, forming a bacterial maternal lineage. Abjection and the grotesque as feminist motifs make visible the way the body has long been a site of pain and trauma, both personal and systematic, questioning the boundaries of the body and the dichotomies of human\/inhuman. In that exploration, an expression of autonomy emerges.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/awomensthing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/soft-weapons_peril-1143x1600.jpg\" alt=\"soft-weapons_peril\" class=\"wp-image-18721 lazyload\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1960\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/awomensthing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/soft-weapons_peril-1143x1600.jpg\" alt=\"soft-weapons_peril\" class=\"wp-image-18721 lazyload\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/awomensthing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/soft-weapons_peril-1143x1600.jpg 1143w, https:\/\/awomensthing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/soft-weapons_peril-571x800.jpg 571w, https:\/\/awomensthing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/soft-weapons_peril-1097x1536.jpg 1097w, https:\/\/awomensthing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/soft-weapons_peril.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Lydia Nobles\u2019 \u201cPleasure Trophy III\u201d (2025) extends this thread of the grotesque. Fleshy yet oceanic, it takes a shell-like form. Holes spatter its surface like barnacles. Nobles moves further from the human form, yet her sculptures hold the anxieties, stickiness, and discomfort of embodied experience. \u201cElizabeth\u201d (2025), from her <em>As I Sit Waiting <\/em>series, inspired by abortion stories and the clinic waiting-room chair, resembles an iris, a cow skull, and a human pelvis with the base of a rocking chair.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/awomensthing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/soft-weapons_Elizabeth-1200x1600.jpg\" alt=\"soft-weapons_Elizabeth\" class=\"wp-image-18718 lazyload\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1867\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/awomensthing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/soft-weapons_Elizabeth-1200x1600.jpg\" alt=\"soft-weapons_Elizabeth\" class=\"wp-image-18718 lazyload\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1867\" srcset=\"https:\/\/awomensthing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/soft-weapons_Elizabeth-1200x1600.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/awomensthing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/soft-weapons_Elizabeth-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/awomensthing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/soft-weapons_Elizabeth-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/awomensthing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/soft-weapons_Elizabeth.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>On the other side, artists like Aaron Cobett present the queer body polished, sensual, and gloriously unapologetic\u2014an entry into the show\u2019s body fantasies. His photographs depict queer subjects subverting gender norms with confidence and glamour. In \u201cHollywood\u201d (1996), the model meets the camera\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/awomensthing.org\/blog\/tag\/gaze\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"15333\">gaze<\/a> head-on, wearing a skin-tight one-piece. Leaning back, his arm rests on a glittering disco ball like a football player sitting with his helmet. \u201cAndrea\u201d (1998) perches nude atop a hot pink chaise, save for a studded collar. She, too, stares into the camera without a trace of shame. These are beautiful photos of beautiful people\u2014a fantastical depiction of the bodies that were so often politicized. Glamour becomes the mode of <a href=\"https:\/\/awomensthing.org\/blog\/tag\/resistance\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"15415\">resistance<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/awomensthing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/soft-weapons_hollywood-1200x1600.jpg\" alt=\"soft-weapons_hollywood\" class=\"wp-image-18720 lazyload\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1866\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/awomensthing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/soft-weapons_hollywood-1200x1600.jpg\" alt=\"soft-weapons_hollywood\" class=\"wp-image-18720 lazyload\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1866\" srcset=\"https:\/\/awomensthing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/soft-weapons_hollywood-1200x1600.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/awomensthing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/soft-weapons_hollywood-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/awomensthing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/soft-weapons_hollywood-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/awomensthing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/soft-weapons_hollywood.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Chris Cortez\u2019s \u201cInmaculada Concepci\u00f3n\u201d puts forth a similarly lush fantasy. In this smooth and rich self-portrait, Cortez casts their own body as the Virgin Mary, reimagining both religious narratives and reproductive possibility. If Mary can immaculately conceive, why can\u2019t any other kind of body? The body becomes a generative realm theoretically and literally as the subject is pregnant with a new being\u2014one with blue eyeshadow matching their own.<\/p>\n<p>Darryl LaVare\u2019s portraits sit somewhere between the grotesque and the fantastical. They are unpolished depictions of friends and figures from the Lower East Side scene that maintain a dream-like beauty, tilting toward caricature without ever mocking their subjects. In \u201cTaboo! In the Studio\u201d (2025), Taboo!, in full drag, makes perfect sense in the colorful and busy background\u00a0and LaVare\u2019s style.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/awomensthing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/soft-weapons_taboo-1142x1600.jpg\" alt=\"soft-weapons_taboo\" class=\"wp-image-18722 lazyload\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1961\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/awomensthing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/soft-weapons_taboo-1142x1600.jpg\" alt=\"soft-weapons_taboo\" class=\"wp-image-18722 lazyload\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1961\" srcset=\"https:\/\/awomensthing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/soft-weapons_taboo-1142x1600.jpg 1142w, https:\/\/awomensthing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/soft-weapons_taboo-571x800.jpg 571w, https:\/\/awomensthing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/soft-weapons_taboo-1097x1536.jpg 1097w, https:\/\/awomensthing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/soft-weapons_taboo.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>The exhibition also explores the effects of modern technology on the body and choice, highlighting the complexities that can occur as women use technology to share their experiences or seek information.<\/p>\n<p>Multidisciplinary artist Aneesa Julmice directly addresses these themes in a series titled <em>Parasocial<\/em>, in which she explores what it means to have an online presence through the lens of the female form. In \u201cThe Trinity\u201d (2025), a polished, classical interior finished with ornate molding and striped walls is starkly contrasted by two large surveillance cameras. The surreal scene is executed with precision. The mirror, a symbol of self-reflection, is flanked by the cameras, representing external observation. The work is a haunting meditation on visibility, surveillance, and identity\u2013 a place where sacred space and technology collide, leaving only traces of the self behind.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/awomensthing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/soft-weapons_Aneesa_Julmice_2025_The-Trinity-1280x1600.jpg\" alt=\"soft-weapons_Aneesa_Julmice_2025_The-Trinity\" class=\"wp-image-18717 lazyload\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1750\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/awomensthing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/soft-weapons_Aneesa_Julmice_2025_The-Trinity-1280x1600.jpg\" alt=\"soft-weapons_Aneesa_Julmice_2025_The-Trinity\" class=\"wp-image-18717 lazyload\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/awomensthing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/soft-weapons_Aneesa_Julmice_2025_The-Trinity-1280x1600.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/awomensthing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/soft-weapons_Aneesa_Julmice_2025_The-Trinity-640x800.jpg 640w, https:\/\/awomensthing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/soft-weapons_Aneesa_Julmice_2025_The-Trinity-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/awomensthing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/soft-weapons_Aneesa_Julmice_2025_The-Trinity.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cDoxxed\u201d (2025) is a digital interactive installation depicting four figures in a similarly eerie and sterile setting. In a pristine, high-ceilinged room, the women\u2019s poses are reminiscent of Renaissance nudes, but black glossy latex masks enforce anonymity. At the center lies a shattered flat-screen television. The work speaks to the fetishization and erasure Black and brown women have long faced in the media, asking what remains of identity and autonomy when the digital gaze claims ownership of one\u2019s body.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>The show neither slips into hopelessness nor offers naive optimism; it acknowledges the weight of the political and cultural moment and encourages you to keep going.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>These commentaries are juxtaposed with poignant personal narratives and self-expression. Morgan Cousins\u2019s \u201cDear Mother Series\u201d (2014\u20132025) is a powerful sequence of 9 self-portraits documenting her experience having an abortion in her parents\u2019 homeland of Jamaica. By telling her own story, she connects to the women who came before her while also honoring those who have lost their lives to unsafe abortions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Independently produced and curated, <em>soft weapons <\/em>is an inspiring achievement, and the themes it sets out to tackle are no less ambitious. In exploring the politicized body, relationships, and collective memory, it highlights a tapestry of stories that attests to creative expression\u2019s transformative potential. The show neither slips into hopelessness nor offers naive optimism; it acknowledges the weight of the political and cultural moment and encourages you to keep going. <em>soft weapons <\/em>challenges the cynic in all of us. After experiencing the show, the mannequins in Viva Ruiz\u2019s \u201cThank God for Abortion\u201d regalia bid you goodbye as you leave the world that <em>soft weapons <\/em>created.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-xs-font-size\">All images courtesy of soft weapons. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a massive 6,000-square-foot commercial space, soft weapons: Keep Your Fucking Hands Off My Body, curated by Cassandra Neyenesch and Lydia Nobles, opens with \u201cThank God For Abortion\u201d (2019) regalia by artist Viva Ruiz. 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