Sheilah ReStack

My work is a feminist, queer proposal for new systems of knowledge and narrative. I use traditional film and photographic paper combined with concrete wedges, gold leaf, rubber bands, felted photographs, thread, steel, fur, acetate, rocks, goldenrod, copper, plexiglass – and more – to transform photography into material assemblages. I want the energy of contact between the unexpected registers to be delicate and precarious, flawless and flawed. My photographic works explore the tension between the feral and the domestic; motherhood and queer sexuality; the tenderness of intimate bodies and ways in which they can infiltrate the world as proof and question.