DAMARIS ATHENE
Damaris’ multi-disciplinary practice examines how digital technology is altering the world around us and affecting how we interact with and perceive our own bodies. Flattening and perfecting is interrogated through an exploration of corporeality and abstraction of the human form in painting, sculpture, performance, photography, and the boundaries between these mediums. Athene takes particular interest in the digitisation of female bodies and how ‘now we can digitise our dysmorphia by virtually modifying what we dislike, creating “perfect” selves’ Coy-Dibley. Does our corporeality become more abject in contrast with digital perfection?
This series traverses the boundary between painting and sculpture while evoking an unnerving sense of the body. The smooth airbrushed surface tantalises and begs for your touch. Protrusions bulge underneath the soft membrane, recalling fat and folds of flesh.
Damaris graduated from Camberwell College of Arts in 2015 with a BA(Hons) in Painting. She was shortlisted for the Hans Brinker Painting Prize in Amsterdam in 2014, for the Clyde & Co. Art Award in 2015 and in 2018 was selected for the BEEP Painting Prize. In 2019 Athene held a solo show ‘Cheer Up Love’ at Cambridge University. In 2021 she has had two solo shows ‘I Wish I Was As Hot As My Memoji’ at TOD Gallery and ‘If Only I Could Be 2D’ at Compact Contemporary. Athene founded the blog Private View where she interviews female artists.
I Wish I Was As Hot As My Memoji.001
I Wish I Was As Hot As My Memoji.006
If Only I Could Be 2D.001
Pixelate Me.010
Pixelate Me.012
Pixelate Me.013
I Wish I Was As Hot As My Memoji.001 (2020) MDF, foam, polyester fibre, foam nuggets, neoprene and acrylic paint, 40cm x 37cm x 5cm, £550
I Wish I Was As Hot As My Memoji.006 (2021) MDF, foam, polyester fibre, foam nuggets, neoprene and acrylic paint, 94cm x 55cm x 12cm, £950
If Only I Could Be 2D.001 (2020) MDF, foam, polyester fibre, foam nuggets, neoprene and acrylic paint, 40cm x 28cm x 7cm, £530
Pixelate Me.010 (2021) MDF, foam, foam nuggets, neoprene and acrylic paint, 18cm x 11cm x 4cm, £250
Pixelate Me.012 (2021) MDF, foam, foam nuggets, neoprene and acrylic paint, 28cm x 22cm x 6cm, £380
Pixelate Me.013 (2021) MDF, foam, foam nuggets, neoprene and acrylic paint, 24cm x 19cm x 5cm, £380
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