Kiara Sarusi
About
She Was Not the Wench I Wished t’have Had is an interactive photographic series dealing with gender performativity and the digital online sphere. The work parodies the format of the online dating website Tinder, with the four girls’ profiles presented upon a separate Iphone screen. These persona’s mimic the ways in which we perform online, an experience completely separate to our natural self, and devoid of real expression. Cogs in a machine of desire and affection, a mask for the wearers of the real world. As these personas exist online, they act out on their own fruition, enacting an interactive element for the audience to make conversation with an Ai bot attached to each girl. Creating a complete artificial interaction between the persona and the real world.
Bio
Kiara Sarusi is an artist working with the bodily form. Using photography, her works deal with issues such as female objectification, body image, and situating and exploring the female in the modern world. The photographs themselves range from close ambiguous bodily forms, to performances of gender as a whole. The materiality of Sarusi’s work is signigicanty to her practice, using fabric, lightboxes, mirrors and digital screens to push photography beyond the traditional use of paper. A large part of Sarusi’s practice is the push and pull interaction between the audience and the photograph. Audiences perceive the abstraction of the art or how they are being told to interact with the work.