Cassandra Zampini

Lives and works in New York, NY, USA

Artist statement

Cassandra Zampini’s work is held in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and has been exhibited at institutions including the Center for Creative Photography, the Griffin Museum of Photography, and the National Liberty Museum. She is also an organizer of Fall of Freedom, a decentralized, artist-led movement taking shape across the US. "My work is an urgent response to what it feels like to live digitally—the endless bombardment of addictive information and all the ways digital life shapes us. Life is made up of what we pay attention to. By bringing images and memes into silkscreen paintings, I seek to reclaim the depth and mystery of the human experience from the flattening forces of the screen and the systems of power and control behind what we see. By uncovering what subtly guides us—and why—I hope to rediscover connection and meaning, and to mark where digital life ends and real life begins." —Cassandra Zampini BIO Cassandra Zampini is a New York–based visual artist who transforms found memes and images into silkscreen paintings and aggregate works to examine how visual culture shapes identity, perception, and power. Following in the tradition of artists who have interrogated and recontextualized mass media, she turns her lens toward internet culture, where algorithms, memes, and viral images shape what we see, feel, and believe. Through screenprinting, image aggregation, and the recontextualization of found digital content, Zampini creates space to...

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