The nature of my work is an exploration of identity and subjectivity utilizing performativity, seriality and repetition. The use of figurative images in my work takes in to account that for centuries and across many cultures the body was believed to mirror the cosmos in miniature, and was used to illustrate certain theological ideas by comparing the elements contained within the universe with the organs of the body, demonstrating their interdependence and mutual reinforcement and restraint. In experimenting with the the body as philosophy in a parallel form my studio practice has shifted it's focus to performance based work in constant remembrance of the following phrase by Antonin Artaud, "In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds."

In examining my body and it's relationship to object making I hope to further explore the slippage between the simulated and the real, and to utilize video, photography, and sculpture as a means to investigate Yves Klein’s desire “to realize in my own creations that 'transparence,' that immeasurable 'void' in which lives the permanent and absolute spirit freed of all dimensions.”

MAKE CONTACT: elizaswann@gmail.com