“How’s Married Life?” is a feminist reaction to stigmatization of women within the institution of marriage. The artist’s body imagined as a cement ball-and-chain, the work plays on the idea of women as objects (or “wife” as ball-and-chain) while challenging the idea of “settling down” post marriage. With a mouth cast agape, open as if mid-sentence (women are often interrupted in our expressions of opinions – our voices often muted and of less value), the work challenges the gendered dichotomy of women as both necessary and burden, and the transformative expectation of “married life”.
