Theresa Sapergia

The two series: "Canada Day"  and "Marksmanship" propose captive moments, bizarre outcomes and a possible place without people where unmodern desires begin to be sorted out one coveted object after another.

I work with corporeal metaphors and explicit enactions of subjective experience in order to voice the "extra-discursive": those lived moments that are silent in discourse.  My work describes the instant of relating and empathetic consequence inherent to placing ourselves within the picture.  As an artist, I see the represented body as a site of complex social negotiations, assumptions, and exchanges of power.

I am interested in that fleshy body that lifts, falls, hovers and searches for its own likeness, a figuration that wants to find similarity within an image made of marks and dust.   The transient form that is at once animal, magical, fantastical and ordinary.  These bodies share histories of objectification, exploitation, and colonization.  Human/ animal recognition is relating born of touch. To touch is to make oneself recognizable in turn.