My work collaborates with technology that obscures legibility and questions traditional modes of authorship to reveal and challenge systems of gendered control. Blending the tactile aspects of materials like fiber and print with immaterial tools like digital weaving and natural language processing, my practice measures the traditional disciplines of “women’s work” against the feminized origins of modern computing technology. Following the post-structural concept of l’écriture feminine, or women’s writing, this practice creates subversive spaces for emotional identification and agency among subjects who are unable to articulate their voice in the language of the dominant culture. Exploring what it might mean to create within this sublimated layer of meaning, my work explores historical and contemporary landscapes of exploitation, sadomasochism, and obsession, reading women’s agency into situations where the eyes of patriarchy saturate the very fabric of language and thought itself.

I graduated from the College of Charleston in 2021 with BAs in English and Studio Art, specializing in feminist film studies and silver gelatin printing respectively, and am currently pursuing an MA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Visual and Critical studies. I have exhibited work internationally in galleries including the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art in Charleston SC, Artists' Cooperative Residency & Exhibitions (ACRE) in Chicago IL, and The Tabakalera International Centre for Contemporary Culture in Donostia ES. My written work is currently held in the Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

direct all professional inquiries to arobin14@saic.edu

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