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My work initiates from an evolving interest in the nude body, cast through a contemporary feminist lens. Challenging my conservative upbringing, my concepts draw on my experiences as a woman relating to body, gender, fetishism, queerness, visibility and most importantly the sport of synchronized swimming. While providing the framework for societal critique, I use ‘synchro’ as an alternative metaphor to analyze traditional gender norms, body hierarchies, and gender power dynamics. My relationship to synchro has heavily crafted the way I view the empowered female body and the way it interacts with other beings and manipulates space. I strive to reclaim the body, its worth, and to renounce any personal convictions of otherness. I utilize aspects of stereotypically female craft-based practices, yet tension manifests within each sculpture due to the rejection of the conventions of craft. By combining textile and ceramic arts, I explore the dichotomy of hard and soft, masculine and feminine, obscurity and familiarity, while presenting a strong sense of materialism. My sculptural forms are androgynous and ambiguous in order to emphasize a sense of disembodiment. Layering unconventional body parts together and creating absurd formations, I challenge how the body interacts and interconnects with its surroundings while gently touching on a surrealist nerve. The fragmented anatomical configurations allude to elements of deconstructuralism and ultimately exert a disconnect from the self.

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Coco Johnson

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Coco Johnson

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