Ebun Sodipo - Nastiest Girl (The Sharpest Girl in Town)

https://www.damnmagazine.net/ebun-sodipo-nasty-girl-the-sharpest-girl-in-town

I went to the private view of this exhibition and found it really interesting - it was 4D style found footage video work and it allowed me to exercise my love for video installation, multimedia and film based work. I want to go back to video now, I think I might make a video outcome for my FMP. I keep saying this which is probably a sign that I need to get into it again.

https://www.damnmagazine.net/ebun-sodipo-nasty-girl-the-sharpest-girl-in-town

Using visual assemblage as a technique to delve into the artist’s own formation of personal narrative, self-possession and the aestheticization of compositional materials, Sodipo extends her long term fascination with images that pull, extend, transform and recontextualise notions of femininity, desire, and danger.

In Nasty Girl, which contains a newly commissioned video work and a series of collages across the gallery and project space, the artist draws upon her extensive and ongoing visual archive of still and moving images appropriated from the internet. These works come together as tableau’s referencing myriad forms of black womanhood, the dangerous magic of black trans-femininity, the complicated nature of sexuality, gender euphoria, witchcraft, voice, gaze, tactility, surgery, adornment & beauty. Desire is an ongoing thread in this body of work, explored through the sexual in gestures of touch, heat, moisture and the intimacy of looking, but also through desires for the body, specific forms of bodily alteration, or a relationship to the body and desire that is wholly personal. The body itself can be thought of as an assemblage of sorts; affected and affecting, drawing from and in relation to the external world.

I think above everything else I'm attracted to the format of the exhibition (though saying that feels strange because the subject matter is also really interesting)- maybe I just feel like I can use the format more as a reference.

I think I will continue to reference this exhibition beyond my Part 3 FAD project.

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