As users constantly reshape the internet, can we simultaneously expand notions of gender and normative modes of identity? My sculptural and digital works explore the interactions between technology and body. The internet’s role in shaping identity affects the body in precarious, exploitive, and subtle ways. Growing up in the conservative south, I experienced rigid notions of gender and sexuality. Through my work I attempt to break down these ideologies to extend the boundaries of what it means to occupy a prelabeled body and to perform within it.
My practice investigates the screen as an apparatus for allowing and denying visibility through exposure, overexposure, or no exposure at all. In my sculptural and digital works, cast fragments of the human body are stretched across space and claw through digital screens. The work visualizes laborious acts of rebellion of bodies in digital spaces as they are entangled with consumer capitalism. Sometimes sensual, sometimes violent, I navigate the sea of bio-tracking, crypto-consumerist, and hypersexual manifestations of the digital self to envision a space that transcends societal norms.
In my work cast fragments of the human body are stretched across space and claw through digital screens. Navigating the post-human body, I explore how we construct ourselves to perform in the world with technology. The work visualizes laborious acts of rebellion of bodies in digital spaces as they are entangled with consumer capitalism. Synthetic materials, mass produced objects, and animal bones conglomerate as variable cyborgs. Sometimes sensual, sometimes violent, I navigate the sea of bio-tracking, crypto-consumerist, and hypersexual manifestations of the digital self to envision a space that transcends societal norms.
BIO
Maggie Genoble (b. 2001, Jonesville, South Carolina) is an interdisciplinary artist working within feminist and queer studies as it relates to the emergence of new technology. She works across a range of media, utilizing sculpture, video, and installation to generate hybrid figures in a time when the human body is highly digitized and politicized. Growing up in the conservative south, she responds to rigid, normative performances of gender and sexuality, working through nontraditional modes of representation in her practice to expand on ideas of identity. Genoble was awarded the 2023 Whetsell Fellowship at Wofford College, where she is completing a BA in Studio Art and Art History, leading to the solo exhibition Touchy Subjects in the Richardson Family Art Gallery in 2024.