In Kristina Faragher's video Thick, the viewer
watches a close-up of honey pouring from beyond the frame into an open, receiving mouth. As the liquid glides into the orifice in slow motion, the viewer is visually seduced by the golden substance as it glitters in the sun, running over pink flesh and teeth. At first it appears that this action is enjoyable to the receiver. But as the honey begins to pour furiously, covering the mouth like a golden gag, it struggles to reject the excess. The video then reverses, and the honey winds up and out of the mouth, returning to the anonymous source.
Kristina Faragher received her MFA from Claremont Graduate University in 2001. Through video and installation, Faragher enters into the world of visual sensuality, with the body at the center of her explorations. Among her many dynamic solo and group projects are exhibitions at the Sweeney Art Gallery at The University of California, Riverside, Andrew Shire Gallery, (Los Angeles), Highways Performance Space (Santa Monica), Side Street Projects (Los Angeles), The Brewery (Los Angeles) and Crazy Space in Santa Monica. Her work and interviews are included in The Smithsonian Institute’s, Archives of American Art.
faragher@sbcglobal.net
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