{"uid":"KzNAz0MqnJ55X4UB","type":"artist","tags":["sculpture"],"group":"no","group_name":null,"project_title":"Stiletto is a Dagger!","summary":"Intended to be installed on plinths, the series \u200bStiletto is a Dagger\u200b consists of four stilettos and one Buffalo shoe, all moulded in bronze. The stiletto shoes present themselves to the viewer on long stems: sprues left over from the molding process. This part of the sculptural objects functions as a comment on the elevation of objects to artworks, when placed in a certain context. The high heeled shoe as an object already contains this theme, but by exaggerating the height of the heel and adding stalks to the sole, further attention is drawn to it. The integrated pedestals simultaneously ridicule the plinths artworks are typically installed on, and\u200b \u200bmakes the viewer aware of how placing seemingly pedestrian objects within art institutions automatically makes us catalogue them as works of art. The objects also playfully question the functionality of artworks, since the image of a person wearing this dysfunctional footwear is rather absurd.\nStilettos are part of the uniform and feminine choreography of businesswomen, and play an important role in drag communities, where the shoe symbolizes illusion, transition, and gender-queering. Playing on the double meaning of the word, (\u200bstiletto\u200b originates from a diminutive word of the Italian word for dagger: \u200bstilo\u200b), \u200bStiletto is a Dagger\u200b also references weaponry, as does the name of the footwear itself.","space":"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo (2018) Bronze & Buffalo\n 24x26x40\n\nStiletto is a Dagger! (1) (2019) Bronze\n43x22x9,5\n\nStiletto is a Dagger! (2) (2019) Bronze\n37,5X18x8,5 cm\n\nRose Dancing (2019) Bronze\n41x22x13\n\nStiletto is a Dagger! (3) (2019) Bronze \n37,5x19x8","artists_proposal":null,"members":[],"lang":"en","status":"ok","video_link_password":null,"video_link":null,"audio_link_password":null,"audio_link":null,"images_link_password":null,"images_link":null,"cellphone":null,"description":null,"estimated_budget":null,"complementary_info":null,"names":"Ragnhild","surname":"May","email":"info@ragnhildmay.com","dni_type":"Other","dni":"130388","address":"Svendelodden 5, 1. th","city":"Copenhagen","nacionality":"Danish","country_id":"64","birthdate":"1988-03-12T23:00:00.000Z","birthdate_2":"1988-03-12T23:00:00.000Z","telephone":"+53818834","web":"ragnhildmay.com"}