Signe Pierce

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Signe Pierce (* 1988 in Tucson ) is an American artist who works with multimedia in the areas of performance , photography , video and digital art . She lives and works in New York.

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Signe Pierce uses social media to examine current social and political reality in terms of its affectivity. In a radical way, she uses her own body and identity as a medium and projection surface. It is more and more often mentioned in the context of feminist performance art , as it was initiated by artists such as Valie Export , Nan Goldin , Cindy Sherman and Marina Abramović since the early 1970s . She inverts the mass media image of women in the focus of the male gaze into a self-reflective and self-confident gesture that she describes as hyperfeminine.

She landed a viral hit with the video "American Reflexxx" made by her partner Alli Coates. In the performance , the artist questions what happens when you put a sexualized body , which is presented to us on a large scale in the media , on the open street. In the video of the performance, Signe Pierce is finally followed and attacked by a mob.

In January 2018 she opened the exhibition "Virtual Normality - Net Artists 2.0" at the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig with a performance between the digital alter ego of the "Big Sister" and the real self .

She herself says in Kunstforum International: "In the context of my artistic work, I made a conscious decision to reduce my weight, to bleach my hair and to reflect and caricature the exploitation and shameless reduction of the female form to a sexual object that is practiced within the mass media . (...) I use my body to examine aspects of women's perception in a way that I would not expect from any other person. "

education

  • In 2011 she completed her studies in fine arts at the BFA School of Visual Arts, New York

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2018 Tesseract, Times Square Space, New York
  • 2018 Metamirrorism, Annka Kultys Gallery, London
  • 2017 Faux Realities, Annka Kultys Gallery, London
  • 2017 Virtual Normality, Galerie Nathalie Halgand, Vienna
  • 2016 # 10: Make America Great Again (Performance), Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • 2015 Simulational Aesthetics (Performance), Palais de Tokyo, Paris

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2019 DIGITAL, e.artis contemporary , Chemnitz
  • 2018 Virtual Normality. Women Net Artists 2.0, Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig
  • 2018 ONE YEAR OF RESISTANCE, The Untitled Space, New York
  • 2017 SECRET GARDEN: The Female Gaze on Erotica, The Untitled Space, New York
  • 2016 Love 2016, Leroy Neiman Gallery, New York
  • 2016 Just Give Me a Happy Middle, Castor Gallery, New York

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Inside the Hot Pink Barbie Bungalow of Artists, 'Cyberfeminists' and Real-Life Couple Signe Pierce and Alli Coates" ( English ) In: Paper Magazine .
  2. ↑ 'We Didn't Set Out to Make a Piece About Dehumanization, Mob Mentality, or Violence': Alli Coates and Signe Pierce Talk 'AMERICAN REFLEXXX' ( English ) In: ArtNews .
  3. ^ "Watch Transphobia Fuel an Angry, Violent Mob in Myrtle Beach" ( English ) In: Vice .
  4. ^ "Masking Against The Neoliberal Gaze" ( English ) In: Open Space: SF MoMA .
  5. ↑ "I want strong art that oozes femininity" - Interview with Signe Pierce ( German ) In: SPEX magazine .
  6. ↑ Signe Pierce "Media is the Message" a conversation with Rosa Windt ( German ) In: Kunstforum International Vol. 257 (2018) The fourth wave !? FEMINISM TODAY .
  7. ^ "What's Real? Signe Pierce" ( Italian ) In: Vogue Italia .
personal data
SURNAME Pierce, Signe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American performance artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Tucson , USA