Heather Renée Russ

Lives and works in New York, NY, USA

Artist statement

I work across photography, projection, installation and bio-art. I blend organic marine materials with queer femme signifiers. My work engages with themes of displacement while celebrating the vibrant communities queers have historically created in cities by the sea. I work with marine algae, both macroalgae (seaweed) and microalgae (phytoplankton). Utilizing scanner photography, I create detailed imagery of algae, incorporating glitch. My work is influenced by queer ecology and speaks to the fragmentation many queers feel as spaces of gathering, including queer beaches, are under threat from climate change and gentrification.

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