Maggie Genoble

Lives and works in Spartanburg, SC, USA

Artist statement

As users constantly reshape the internet, can we simultaneously expand notions of gender and normative modes of identity? My sculptural and digital works explore the interactions between technology and body. The internet’s role in shaping identity affects the body in precarious, exploitive, and subtle ways. Growing up in the conservative south, I experienced rigid notions of gender and sexuality. Through my work I attempt to break down these ideologies to extend the boundaries of what it means to occupy a prelabeled body and to perform within it. My practice investigates the screen as an apparatus for allowing and denying visibility through exposure, overexposure, or no exposure at all. In my sculptural and digital works, cast fragments of the human body are stretched across space and claw through digital screens. The work visualizes laborious acts of rebellion of bodies in digital spaces as they are entangled with consumer capitalism. Sometimes sensual, sometimes violent, I navigate the sea of bio-tracking, crypto-consumerist, and hypersexual manifestations of the digital self to envision a space that transcends societal norms.

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