
ARTIST STATEMENT
Jennifer Hand
I make art about the cultural expectations that govern the lives and bodies of women. Immersive installations, performances and video act as a safely saccharine lens through which to examine the taboos that infect western girlhood. I disrupt the patriarchal equivalence of the feminine with the frivolous by making provocatively intense work that drips with both challenge and the color pink. The color of blushing lovers, budding cherries, the perfect cupid’s bow of a baby’s mouth, new life and sunsets and sex, pink is present in the moments of sweetness and silliness that make life worth living.