Cyber Fluids - Galleri Blunk - 2024

The second artist out of six to exhibit in the group exhibition "Cyber Fluids" is Amanda Kessaris she/her
Amanda Kessaris (2001) is a Danish/American multidisciplinary artist who uses her pieces as outlets to investigate gender roles, identity, and her experience of being a girl and woman within different cultures and generations. Kessaris works interdisciplinarily in a physical and digital reality to "reclaim" and portray traditional feminine symbols and materials as motifs in a contemporary context and as strong feminist symbols. Growing up around Hollywood's "look at me" culture, but very close to her Danish egalitarian-oriented family, has created a form of identity crisis, which appears in her works. The concept of identity being something that can be taken on and off as well as the eternal conflict between her multiple selves act as reappearing themes throughout her practice.
As she studies how her identities flow into one another, Kessaris experimentally investigates how materials have the potential to do the same. Her works examine the possibility of creating fluid boundaries between various artistic mediums. Doing this can allow a single work to be simultaneously classified as an independent installation, video, sculpture, photo, performance, and/or wearable piece. With the intention of creating works the viewer can become one with, Kessaris often works with unconventional, but recognisable, materials that people have a physical relationship to, such as undergarments or furniture. Doing so allows the viewer to interact with and mentally place themselves in the negative space of her pieces and understand their deeper intentions.
She has previously performed for Århus Artweek 2022, exhibited for International Women's Day 2023 at KØN Museum, and participated in various group exhibitions both inside and outside of Denmark. She is currently living in Aarhus, Denmark where she is a second-year student at Aarhus Kunstakademi.
This exhibition is in connection to Meta.Morf 2024