Intersectional Selves

In the painting series ‘Intersectional Selves’ employs ‘self-portraiture’ as a tool that encompasses many forms, from embodied and participatory practices to disembodied and abstract data. Throughout art history, ‘self-portraiture’ has continued to raise questions concerning the politics of representation and representationalism. Women’s relationships and intensive communication in particular have been the basis of many portraits and discussions of art-related ideas. We wish to add to the history of representation of women in painting and push the boundaries of what an unapologetic feminist self-portrayal could be.

Through this body of works, I ask, can self-portraiture challenge or evade the binary of gendered, idealized, and commodified bodies ubiquitous in neoliberal networked societies? How might self-portraiture enact a care web that enables co-constituted, interdependent subjects to repair, rebuild, and cultivate resilience in the midst of, and in the aftermath of, experiences of overwhelming negative affect? With this series, I practice self-portrayal as a means of redemption or reclamation through the wilful assertion of myself as a subject.