Annie Uesugi
BIO
Annie Uesugi is a multidisciplinary artist, with a specific focus on installation and film photography. Born and raised in Wahiawa, Hawaii, Uesugi focuses on work pertaining to the physical body, the ephemeral, and the process of experimentation. Audience interpretation and interaction is an integral part of their work, and they aim to challenge and complicate the viewer’s perspective.
Statement
As a child, I’ve always believed that the body returns back to the dirt; mind, body, spirit, memories, all of it travels together towards a finite end. There wasn’t any point to this way of thinking, it wasn’t to comfort myself or to feed into any sort of nihilism about the world, it simply felt like it was a fact, true to me even if it wasn’t objectively true. Materialism doesn’t take out the complexity in life for me, but rather blends it together with the physical. The kitsch becomes opulent when the objectivity of value loses relevance. The flesh becomes beautiful because of its vitality, its impermanence. The dirt becomes as meaningful as a gilded tomb.
