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Sierra Kinsora france
title
Women against a wall
My intention is to disrupt the natural, physical state of a subject until they become something unrecognisable, falsified, or altered. Most of my work involves objects and settings from « daily life », using my own body and materials that are already lying around in my home. There is therefore a personal, mundane aspect to the original images. Using light and digital manipulation, I hope to transform commonplace bodies into fantastical ones.
After studying cinema, I came to consider light as a connective tissue, joining the subject to what surrounds them. By shaping the light during shooting, and later digitally redirecting it, I work to strip away the boundaries that separate body and background. I hope this merging will testify to the body as an impressionable, ever-changing physical entity, subject to the forces of its environment and saturated with its own history.
It is my intention that all bodies in my work, whether human or inanimate, become unnatural. By confiscating their physical autonomy and modifying their form, I hope to portray an exaggerated dependency on their environment: that they be pushed, inspired, influenced and changed by what surrounds them in impossible ways. And finally, that they carry this history with them, embedded in their flesh. In this way, my work is a study of time and the nature of our own impermanence, a contemplation of, and a reaction to entropy.
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entry description
My work is an ongoing research on the transformation of bodies and objects in relation to their environment. Through a careful process of graphic manipulation, I work to restructure human bodies as well as the "bodies" of objects into impossible forms. I use techniques of digital photo collaging, layering, long-exposure, and macro photography to morph and reshape my subjects, while merging them with their environment.My intention is to disrupt the natural, physical state of a subject until they become something unrecognisable, falsified, or altered. Most of my work involves objects and settings from « daily life », using my own body and materials that are already lying around in my home. There is therefore a personal, mundane aspect to the original images. Using light and digital manipulation, I hope to transform commonplace bodies into fantastical ones.
After studying cinema, I came to consider light as a connective tissue, joining the subject to what surrounds them. By shaping the light during shooting, and later digitally redirecting it, I work to strip away the boundaries that separate body and background. I hope this merging will testify to the body as an impressionable, ever-changing physical entity, subject to the forces of its environment and saturated with its own history.
It is my intention that all bodies in my work, whether human or inanimate, become unnatural. By confiscating their physical autonomy and modifying their form, I hope to portray an exaggerated dependency on their environment: that they be pushed, inspired, influenced and changed by what surrounds them in impossible ways. And finally, that they carry this history with them, embedded in their flesh. In this way, my work is a study of time and the nature of our own impermanence, a contemplation of, and a reaction to entropy.
about the photographer
Sierra Kinsora is an American filmmaker, visual artist, cinematographer and dancer based in France. After 13 years of strict ballet training, at the age of 18 she radically changed orientation and joined the physical theatre troupe, The Cabiri, as an aerialist. It’s there in 2013 where she discovered butoh dance and began the creation of dance photography and films. In 2019 she became a founding member of the dance company, Infradanse and graduated from EICAR, the International Film and Television School of Paris, receiving the award for Best Cinematography and Outstanding Achievement. Since then she works as a cinematographer and develops her photographic work as a visual artist. In 2020 she directed her first film, Styx, during the first Covid-19 lockdown in Paris.back to gallery