VANDALYSMI.ARTVanda Focanti    
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PORTAL  THEORY + PRESS

interdisciplinary (CON) artist based in NYC
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SELF-IDENTIFICATIONS



[Stage1, Stage2, Stage3]

1 installation; 3 activations.

—Satin set, satin and velvet soft sculptures with hand sewn ruffles, acetone print collages on fabric, Marie Antoinette wig, found objects, self?—

The ongoing archiving of the cyber-self, iterative identities in the surveillance age, and euphoric (dis)figurations that occur online vs in art school are some of the themes dealt with in my latest body of work.

Yours truly’s mother tongue is decadence, but what happens when the implications of a rococo sensibility meet the icy sheen of a digital interface?

What’s missing in these photos is the floating screen, sliced to the proportions of my computer screen on which I projected the video performance linked here, grappling with self identification in systems of surveillance…