16th-29th March 2021
‘Damaris Athene’s multi-disciplinary practice examines how digital technology is altering the world around us and affecting how we interact with each other and our own bodies. Flattening and perfecting is interrogated through an exploration of corporeality and abstraction of the human form in painting, sculpture, performance, photography, and the boundaries between these mediums. Athene takes particular interest in the digitisation of female bodies and how ‘now we can digitise our dysmorphia by virtually modifying what we dislike, creating “perfect” selves’ Coy- Dibley. Athene plays with the push and pull of seduction and disgust that Julia Kristeva speaks of in her writings on the abject, confronting our shared mortality and the notion of our bodies as pure matter. Athene is interested in how this interacts with our digital world. Does our corporeality become more abject in contrast with digital perfection? ‘
I Wish I Was As Hot As My Memoji.004 2021 MDF, foam, polyester fibre, foam nuggets, neoprene and acrylic paint 60cm x 50cm x 10cm
Pixelate Me.002 2021 MDF, foam, polyester fibre, foam nuggets, neoprene and acrylic paint 23cm x 19.5cm x 4cm
Festival Peer
If Only I Could Be 2D.002 2020-21 MDF, foam, polyester fibre, foam nuggets, neoprene and acrylic paint 48cm x 47.5cm x 5cm
Festival Peer
Performative Act.001 2021 Photograph
Performative Act.002 2021 Photograph
Performative Act.003 2021 Photograph
Performative Act.004 2021 Photograph
‘Revisiting Cyberfeminism: Theory as a Tool for Understanding Young Women’s Experiences' by Trevor Scott Milford.
‘The Trouble with Beauty’ by Wendy Steiner
‘Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto’ by Legacy Russell
‘Technofetishism and the Uncanny (alt.sex.fetish.robots)’ by Allison de Fren.
Desires
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‘The Powers of Horror’ by Julia Kristeva
‘Sexuality: Documents of Contemporary Art’ edited by Amelia Jones for Whitechapel Gallery.
Festival Peer
Contact Damaris Athene Instagram: @damaris.athene Twitter: @DamarisAthene www.damarisathene.co.uk
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