ARTISTS/JESSICA HARRISON/

JESSICA HARRISON
BIO
''Fear dominates the work: its creation, its pervasive nature and its manipulation. The work investigates themes of surveillance, experimentation and violation, exposing the authority of fear and the vanity of the contemporary. Revealing interiors, voyeuristic observations and the experience of spectacle allows us brief god-like power but merely ends in a glimpse of our own mortality and inevitable destruction.
I am interested in the edge to an interior, the division between the familiar and the unfamiliar, the fearful and the feared, the partition, the mouth into the other. My work focuses on our aspirations and attempts to access the unfamiliar landscape, subjecting the interior to extreme forms of surveillance in an effort to map an unmarked territory, to reveal our hidden contours. It is the gathering of information by violent means, our cultural gaze into the body to dispel fears that exposes the body as cannibal, as devourer of itself. My work explores our aggressive desire to conquer the interior and the potential for violence that lurks in this extreme surveillance, ending in a xenotransplantation of parts and a narrative of monstrosity.''
I am interested in the edge to an interior, the division between the familiar and the unfamiliar, the fearful and the feared, the partition, the mouth into the other. My work focuses on our aspirations and attempts to access the unfamiliar landscape, subjecting the interior to extreme forms of surveillance in an effort to map an unmarked territory, to reveal our hidden contours. It is the gathering of information by violent means, our cultural gaze into the body to dispel fears that exposes the body as cannibal, as devourer of itself. My work explores our aggressive desire to conquer the interior and the potential for violence that lurks in this extreme surveillance, ending in a xenotransplantation of parts and a narrative of monstrosity.''