Artist Statement: My work addresses psychological and physical transformations, the resultant distortions of the coercive pressures while growing up as a girl, and the effects of being “othered.” Tropes of Western white girlhood and womanhood are explored, deconstructed, and parodied to reveal their fallacies. I am problematizing normative femininity, body policing, and the acculturation into … Continue reading Sharon VanStarkenburg, Ottawa, Canada