The Queen’s Moves in a Game of Chess

This series extrapolates specific feminist concerns within a larger societal framework.  In chess the Queen is both the most powerful and most pursued piece.  This series depicts the intersectionality of gender and class in forming power dynamics.  The Queen is almost feral in her strength and agility yet is also often cornered and hunted, the aggressor and protector.  The pawns are all men but unlike the King and clergy these men lack agency through their diminished status and thus express the abject state of those caught in the web of institutional control.