Jessamyn Jean

This work positions the body and it's representations as mutually transformative, exploring theories of complex embodiment through disidentification and abstraction. David Getsy's ideas on sculpture in the expanded field of gender form a key reference point for the works, as does Sara Ahmed's 'Queer Phenomenology' and Remi Yergeau's 'Authoring Autism'. I am interested in ways of seeing that are based on differences instead of similarities. In potential, pressure and double meanings. In missattunement, withholding information and the uneasy feeling of standing under a sign to which you do and do not belong.