Emily Theis addresses structural violence, concepts of care, and bodily safety through the use of sculpture, video, performance, painting, and text based works. Materiality is of the utmost importance to Theis’ conceptual practice. Working with found objects allows for a “homemade” feeling to the construction of both her sculptural and video works. Theis’ practice embodies the home environment. Theis is interested in small intimate monuments that are nostalgic for safety. The body is often used as sculpture to explore personal empires fallen, and the seeking of safety from those who would do harm through legislation. The blurring of medium — video becomes a painting through the directive of slow looking, painting becomes the re-birth of a fugitive sculpture, allows for further embodiment of the many visual textures of the home. Current work explores what it means to lose a home — a house, a body, or a state of being.