ARTIST STATEMENT
Patriarchal logics shape our understanding of life in its most simple terms: the seed, love, land, and body. (to become) impossibly simple is a reflection and response to the seed—as a symbol, a living entity, and something that has been commodified, manipulated, and monopolized by corporations and hegemonic ideologies.
Through research, writing, and collage, this work explores the strange interface between biological life and legal control, while also reaching into the more intimate and symbolic dimensions of seeds: desire, fertility, and potential. To break the seed into a system of parts is a process of impossible simplification, one that strips the seed of both its reproductive capacity and the knowledge, culture, and history embedded within it.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born and raised in Camarillo, California, Piper Snowber is a multidisciplinary artist attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago on a Distinguished Scholars Scholarship. Through writing, fibers, and sculpture practices, Piper traces material lineages and investigates the interstitial space between land and body – where social, historical, and political currents flow. Piper has exhibited work at Kriti Gallery in Varanasi, India, Watershed Art and Ecology in Chicago, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Museum of Ventura County.
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