Sarah Fox’s multimedia narratives and characters emerge from embodied experiences of femme-read subjects and gendered bodies. Her stories of life, loss, sex, and love are carried by archetypal hybrid beings that subvert and expand normative notions of femininity.
Drawing from folklore, religion, film, pop culture, erotic art, and literature, the artist reveals feminist counter-narratives—figures who defy hegemonic gender systems and resist patriarchal modes of representation. These stories are often reinterpreted through puppets and marionettes, which serve as surrogate storytellers in her work.
At the core of her practice is the body—particularly the feminized body—as a political territory, a contested site of projection and rejection, of control and rebellion. Bodies that are read as “too much”—too old, too sexual, too beautiful, too powerful, too autonomous, or simply not functioning the way they are “supposed to”—are quickly cast as deviant, as monstrous in patriarchal narratives. Witches, sirens, fairies, harpies, banshees, monsters—these are not merely mythical figures but manifestations of a misogynistic fear of female autonomy and power. These discourses stretch from religious reinterpretations of once-revered goddesses to contemporary pop culture.
Through a visual language that spans diverse media, Fox explores the figure of the vilified, exiled, or subversive woman as a site of ambiguity, resistance, and transformative power. Her work stands as a reclamation of bodies and stories that have long been silenced, suppressed, or demonized.