Puppet Show Sarah Fox

“Puppetry is a fruitful accompaniment to storytelling. It creates an uncanny valley for both the artists and the viewers to see themselves in the characters. The delicate and complex marionettes are quite literally suspended in the air. They appear to move on their own from their sensitive strings. Their movement and magical aura invite viewers to sit with complex emotions in a safe space. Through this gentle and enchanting language, a seed of resistance is planted. The first step in freeing yourself from oppression is being able to imagine a way out and a better future.

In this tale, women find themselves held by Mother Nature, guided by her, set free by remembering their own strength. Through my work, I seek to remind everyone, especially women, that we are not separate from the natural world’s power and wisdom—we are part of her endless capacity for resilience, transformation, and righteous fury.”- Sarah Fox

In this body of work, Sarah Fox has woven sculpture, puppetry, performance and video into a two-act fable of her own making, Untangling the Snare. Archetypal hybrid creatures take form as marionettes and masks, culminating in a video work and live performance. Through these multi-media vessels, a folk tale of female solidarity and escape is born.

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Sarah Fox’s multimedia narratives and characters emerge from embodied experiences of femme-read subjects and gendered bodies. Her stories of life, loss, 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.

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.

Fox lives and works in San Antonio, Texas. She received a BA from Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, where she studied studio art and feminist theory. She received an MFA in studio art from the University of Texas at San Antonio. She teaches at Texas A&M University-San Antonio and is the Mentor-Artist for students in the MOSAIC Student Artist Program at the Contemporary at Bluestar.