Beatriz Whitehill's Papier-Mâché Scale of Resistance
Published on 7.28.25
Beatriz Whitehill's use of papier-mâché transforms a tool of domination into one of defiance and ancestral memory, blurring the line between artwork and everyday household object. Her work is a confrontation of histories, questioning who tells stories and the weight of fact and folklore. This "intervention" symbolizes an adaptive or living archive, with her hand-held scale having a conceptual presence akin to a monument, yet made from a non-permanent material.