Sam Kinsley: Evidence of Action

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Sam Kinsley, "Evidence of Action (detail)," 2016

In my practice I employ the ways I am defined in society to create my own systems of self description; my economy, physicality, and culture translated into self-portraits.

This exhibition focuses on my physicality. I chart my body’s changes and investigate the slow accumulation of my bodily by-products. I use my personal self-care and beauty rituals as routine collection methods, documenting the evidence of my physical existence. The accumulated matter, lip prints, hair, and finger-prints are used for creating drawings, prints, installations, and performance. By ritualizing these routine, mundane tasks I seek to take authority over how I am portrayed, and to exercise my ability to self identify.

- Sam Kinsley

Through these drawings and prints, I aim to portray my ageing feminine body in ways that are subtle, beautiful, systematic, and unusual; to create a series of portraits that are abstract, yet specific and representative. They are evidence of rumination on personal, perceptions of beauty, value, worth, and labour.