Self-portraits, 2021
Giulia Essyad is a multi-disciplinary artist, poet and performer based in Geneva. Her research focuses on representations of the "female" body, particularly those outside the dominant heterosexual male gaze and norms of thin, white, binary beauty.
This series of self-portraits, inspired by the film Avatar, the "Blueberry Inflation" fetish, and the humanoid assistant Cortana, respectively, is part of a series of works that began in 2018 entitled Blue Period, where blue skin is central.
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Giulia Essyad is an artist, poet and performer. She experiments with sculpture, photography, video, text, and using her own body in live and recorded performances. Essyad's research focuses on how bodies are represented and explores the various forms of alienation resulting from the consumption and production of body images.
In 2018, she began a new cycle of ongoing works entitled, Blue Period. This project uses the colour blue as a signifier of otherness and artificiality. Works to date have included photoshopped portraits, ball-jointed dolls, various sculptures, a series of videos, installations and a street performance.
Essyad made her institutional debut with the solo exhibition A Selene Blues at Fri Art Kunsthalle, Fribourg (2020-2021), and will present a new video commissioned by DIS for the Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement, Geneva, which will open on 12 November 2021 and close on 30 January 2022 .
©Isabelle Meister (portrait)
©Thomas Maisonnasse
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Giulia Essyad
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