Art in Context | The Body is Not a Fact: Memory and the Construction of the Self

Explore how disability studies and feminist theory challenge the idea of the body as a fixed “fact” and how social constructs shape our understanding of disability and gender. Luciana McClure Lewis examines Tracey Emin’s bronze sculptures Without Conscience and Every Part of Me Feels You to see how these works interrogate the memory and emotional history embedded in the body. She argues that Emin’s art destabilizes normative ideals of the self, emphasizing how bodies—shaped by culture, power, and memory—are not simply biological but deeply constructed and fluid sites of identity.

For more information please visit this link: https://britishart.yale.edu/exhibitions-programs/art-context-body-not-fact-memory-and-construction-self