Sondra Perry

Across the installation's multiple channels, the camera circles a group of artists as they sit together in a field eating, licking, and squeezing ripe tomatoes. Throughout the ever-changing scene, kisses, whispers, and caresses are shared with a casual, gentle intimacy that reflects interconnectivity and abundance. These queer and desirous exchanges constitute a portrait of collectivity wherein individuals come together as distinct parts of a whole.

Working primarily in digital media and installation, Sondra Perry’s interest lies in the relationship between identity and the digital realm; specifically in what she refers to as the “abstraction of subjecthood” that occurs in technologically-rendered images of blackness. Her work seeks to interrogate and elucidate the role of digital technology in the systematic oppression of black identities.

Commissioned for I Taste the Future at LIAF Biennial (Lofoten International Art Festival)

Sondra Perry’s single-channel version of her Graft and Ash, in which she makes a direct address via computer avatar addressing the representation of physical forms in moving images.

2014, 1:04, color, sound, Two Channels

2015, 2:41 min, color, sound, HD video

2015, 25:24 min, color, sound, Two Channels

2013, 9:45 min, color, silent, Two Channels

2010, 24:39 min, color, silent, HD video

Single channel video installation of a camera slowly panning over the silhouette of a horizontally framed girl.

2009, 3:27 min, color, sound, three-channel installation

From Typhoon Coming On