Darbee Hagerty, My Pubes According to Freud

Darbee Hagerty My Pubes According to Freud Styrofoam, Duct Tape & Human Hair NFS -- In Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, Freud theorizes that women are good at braiding because they secretly want to braid their pubic hair into the shape of a penis. Bringing this idea to life in sculpture emphasizes the strangeness in his work, but also questions authority and power in relation to the generation and acceptance of 'objective scientific fact.' These pieces emerged as personal responses to texts by Simone de Beauvoir and Sigmund Freud on sexuality, femininity, and womanhood. I see them as collaborations with de Beauvoir and Freud, and as collaborations with the increasingly amorphous, shifting concept of “woman.” I have never known what womanhood is. I’ve only recognized it here and there in flashes or feeling, fragmented, never accompanied by the whole. These pieces are a way to partially fill in what I see as gaps in the existing canon of femme-/girl-/womanhood.