Sara Cwynar - S/S 23
Sara Cwynar is a leading artist of her generation. She seeks to make sense of our current visual culture through photography, essayistic video works, collages, installations and books. In her studio, she collects and documents images and objects to identify how these everyday materials shape our lives as we consume them. In this way, she captures an era's prevailing ideals and ideologies.
Sara Cwynar - S/S 23
What keeps pushing us to buy new products and conform to new ideals
Like an anthropologist of our contemporary economy of endless choice, Sara Cwynar explores what the products, colours and images are with which we constantly shape our lives and identities and how they change over time. Through her work, she encourages the viewer to go beneath the surface of capitalism and modern visual culture to discover what is ‘real’. The outcome is a detailed examination of the mechanisms that guide and determine our perception, making her work as seductive as it is disturbing.
A common thread in Cwynar's work is her ongoing research into the effects of consumerism on subconsciously shaped beauty and lifestyle ideals and how these shape our self-image. Much of her work focuses explicitly on the female consumer: from the 'New Woman' cultural phenomenon from the turn of the 19th century until now. The exhibition title, S/S 23, is the usual designation for the new fashion season – in this case, 'Spring/Summer 2023'. It refers to the trends that come and go that keep pushing us to buy new products and conform to new ideals.
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Dates and times
| Thursday 1 June | 10:00 |
| Friday 2 June | 10:00 |
| Saturday 3 June | 10:00 |