2018 Exhibition of Sculptural Works First presented at Angell Gallery, Toronto
A Brief Artist Statement:
Technology was supposed to end with all of us as brains in jars: pure intellect without the dead weight of our fleshy form. In the early days of internet culture, going online felt like a form of de-corporealization. We'd shed our IRL skins, leave behind all their failures and constraints, and become digital avatars that could take whatever on-screen form we wanted.
Instead, our culture seems more acutely focused on bodies -- their shapes, colours, and interactions -- than at any time in recent memory. Technology extends and amplifies our pre-existing bodily behaviours (as in any number of sexting scandals); it helps us reconsider and reconfigure the interactions between bodies (as in #MeToo); it places a whole new set of pressures on bodies which are still in formative stages (numerous studies show that teenagers today engage with sex and intimacy in ways which would have been unimaginable for previous generations); and, ultimately, it creates demand for entirely new types of bodies.
"Add Inches To Your Wang!" exhorts the common refrain of the artist's spam folder.