Resurrection: Echoes of Our Daughters

JOY

Resurrection: Echoes of Our Daughters

From the series Disenthralled

2025

Acrylic on canvas

48 × 30 in. (122 × 76 cm)

CURATORIAL NOTE

Disenthralled refers to the act of freeing oneself from the invisible social structures, norms, and inherited beliefs that confine identity, desire, and self-expression.

Resurrection examines the long-standing structural regulation and violation of women's and girls' bodies within religious institutional frameworks. Rather than approaching harm as isolated moral failure, the artwork situates control within hierarchical systems that sanctify authority and embed gendered obedience into doctrine, ritual, and communal life.

Religious institutions have historically functioned not only as spiritual communities but as governing structures that define moral order. Within many such systems, male leadership is centralized and spiritually legitimized, while female bodies are symbolically tied to purity, honor, and communal virtue. This configuration produces an asymmetry of power that extends beyond theology into lived social organization.

The artwork confronts how sacred authority, when insulated from scrutiny, can enable exploitation while discouraging dissent.

ARTWORK & COLLECTOR INFORMATION

This original artwork is created on museum-grade cotton duck canvas using professional acrylic paints, presented on a 1.5 in. (3.8 cm) gallery-wrapped stretcher, allowing the work to be displayed without additional framing. The canvas is archival and acid-free, ensuring long-term preservation.

The artwork ships worldwide in its stretched format. Each original work is accompanied by a hand-signed Certificate of Authenticity co-signed by the artist and the gallery. As is standard with original artworks, all sales are final once the work has been acquired by a collector.