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Encounter 2013 Wood, varnish 106cm x 200cm x 60cm Hollie Mackenzie explores the notion of the impossible Utopia by creating her own version of a deviant reality in the form of sculpture. She encourages the viewer to interpret this deviant reality and its proximity to the world we live in. By doing this she aims to provoke debate around the unattainable within our society. Encounter (2013) is a reflection of our current reality and also an example of this exploration into an alternative world, with influence of Gilles Deleuze's conceptualisation of 'a thousand tiny sexes' which inspired the multiple differing drips seen in the labial chair. Contrasting the linear phallogocentric drip represen

As art could be described as an exploration into pushing the boundaries of known phenomenons; the aim of my sculptures is to call for an unknown, unthought and unsymbolised 'labial' language and space in this patriarchal society. By presenting something that is as out of the ordinary as melting wood in Downfall (2012), I am suggesting that we find the feminine ways and means of expression through art in order to establish feminine forms of symbolism and structures. My feminist artistic resistance begins by sculpting into a material that could be considered as masculine. Writing myself (Cixous) within the wood I perform my feminist resistance against masculine structures. As a fundamentally m