Tell Me Lies confronts the lived reality of womanhood within a patriarchal system that demands submission while denying full humanity. As a conceptual fiber and mixed-media artist, I work with materials historically coded as feminine to expose how women’s bodies, labor, and identities are controlled and consumed.
This work gives form to the silent rage women are taught to swallow and the anger that accumulates beneath expectations to be pretty, quiet, compliant; to be desirable but not demanding, nurturing but self-erasing. These pieces hold the tension between endurance and resistance, revealing how deeply patriarchy shapes intimacy, relationships, and self-perception.
Repurposed precious objects, including wedding dresses, are dismantled and transformed. Once symbols of purity, devotion, and social approval, they are stripped of their imposed meanings and reclaimed as sites of defiance, survival, and autonomy. Through acts of cutting, unraveling, and reconstruction, the work resists the narratives that bind women to roles of service and sacrifice.
This exhibition asks viewers to reckon with how patriarchy operates not only as ideology, but as a lived, intimate force; shaping how women are seen, treated, and valued. Tell Me Lies calls for recognition and conscious action: a refusal to remain silent, contained, or compliant, and a demand for a future that allows women to exist fully, without constraint.