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Talent of the Year 2020 - NOMINEE: Parker Day
Possession
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No matter what body we possess, we share common human sensory experiences, as well as feelings of potentiality and limitations. In Possession I express our shared corporeal experiences through a fantastical aesthetic because I believe when the distinct meanings of "reality" and "fantasy" erode into insignificance, we see our own supposed limitations are not absolute, and we can finally perceive unity between ourselves and others.
Possession was shot between September 2017 and May 2018 on un-retouched color negative film. There are 46 final works, which is the number of chromosomes there are in each human cell. Each work is available as a 24"x36" mounted digital C-print, in an edition of 3. Superchief Gallery presented solo shows for Possession at their Los Angeles, New York, and Miami locations in 2019. The Possession monograph is published by Not A Cult with a foreword by Juxtapoz Magazine editor-in-chief Evan Pricco.
About author:
Parker Day is a Los Angeles based artist whose work explores identity and the masks we wear. Through costuming and exaggerated expressions, Day toys with the truth of who and what she portrays. She deliberately eschews Photoshop in favor of in-camera capture on film. Lurid color bathes her work and heightens the surreality of her subjects while the grain and grit of the photographs make them palpably real.
Possession was shot between September 2017 and May 2018 on un-retouched color negative film. There are 46 final works, which is the number of chromosomes there are in each human cell. Each work is available as a 24"x36" mounted digital C-print, in an edition of 3. Superchief Gallery presented solo shows for Possession at their Los Angeles, New York, and Miami locations in 2019. The Possession monograph is published by Not A Cult with a foreword by Juxtapoz Magazine editor-in-chief Evan Pricco.
About author:
Parker Day is a Los Angeles based artist whose work explores identity and the masks we wear. Through costuming and exaggerated expressions, Day toys with the truth of who and what she portrays. She deliberately eschews Photoshop in favor of in-camera capture on film. Lurid color bathes her work and heightens the surreality of her subjects while the grain and grit of the photographs make them palpably real.