Magda Parasidis

ARTIST STATEMENT:

In the conceptual project, Ghosts in Sunlight, I investigate the intersection of economic and social justice through the feminist perspective. My work is concerned with how the aesthetics of place contain both systemic exclusionary practices and opportunities for imagining practices of living otherwise. The series of text photos reimagine the public housing I have known as home, as a space of poetic revelation. Photographed entirely after nightfall and illuminated only by the lights of the buildings themselves, the work is an inquiry into absence and presence. How does a community that sees home surrounded by the carceral aesthetics of containment and surveillance, also create underground networks of mutuality and autonomy?

Black, white and blue, the meditative, liminal space of the work, and the handwritten “tags” of a dissenting self, invite us to contemplate our emotional responses to race, class and difference, in the service of a renewed critical consciousness.

Image : Resist