Zoë Buckman ⁠ Ode On, 2016 ⁠ Vintage wedding dresses, embroidery, boxing gloves, chains ⁠ ⁠ Embellished with materials from bridal gowns and veils, Zoë Buckman uses boxing gloves as the central element in her series, Let Her Rave. This group of hanging sculptures responds to 19th-century English poet John Keats’s expression of male dominance in his “Ode on Melancholy” from 1819: “Or if thy mistress some rich anger shows, / Imprison her soft hand, and let her rave.” Buckman’s sculptures challenge the treatment of women and the representation of the feminine as a series of binary paradoxes: that women are gentle and nurturing, but also weak and hysterical, simultaneously chaste yet seductive. Buckman notes, “The work is about the ways in our society that patriarchal constructs keep us controlled.” Buckman’s combination of traditionally feminine materials with boxing gloves is both an assertion of feminist power and an invitation to join the fight. ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ zoebuckman⁠ #letherrave⁠ #21cMuseu...