ARTA SHADMAN
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Hunter’s Dens: Six Gestures of Masculinity
Project type
Site-Specific Installation & Critical Intervention
Date
Septembre 2025
Location
Manitoulin Island, Canada
Along a woodland trail, six reimagined hunting dens become sites of reflection, critique, and transformation. Once built for concealment, vigilance, and control, these dens are recast as installations that question what masculinity is, how it is performed, and how it might unravel.
Drawing on the work of Judith Butler, Byung-Chul Han, bell hooks, Michel Foucault, and Roland Barthes, the project stages masculinity in six variations — performance, exhaustion, refusal, surveillance, parody, and absence. Each den engages with the hunter’s architecture not as a tool of domination, but as a stage for vulnerability, fragility, and potential undoing.













