The medicalized, merchandized, and sexualized body are among the cultural filters that influence our experience of embodiment. In her work, Caitlin Berrigan questions the world of representation through encounters between bare flesh and the fantasy of the image. She addresses our attractions and repulsions to violence, desire, and possession via performance, video, and intimate objects. Critical, but also inventive, she deconstructs the mechanisms of imagery through playful, subversive works.
The medicalized, merchandized, and sexualized body are among the cultural filters that influence our experience of embodiment. In her work, Caitlin Berrigan questions the world of representation through encounters between bare flesh and the fantasy of the image. She addresses our attractions and repulsions to violence, desire, and possession via performance, video, and intimate objects. Critical, but also inventive, she deconstructs the mechanisms of imagery through playful, subversive works.
Berrigan is an emerging artist in video, sculpture, performance, and interactive art. After completing an interactive video & sculpture installation on medical examination and archetypes of the vagina dentata, Berrigan is beginning work on an experimental documentary about high fructose corn syrup, fatness, big agribusiness and the biotech industry.
Berrigan received her BA in Art History and Production from Hampshire College. A California native, she recently relocated to Brooklyn after living in Paris and Massachusetts. She has worked on projects with the Media Education Foundation, Women in the Director's Chair, and Cabinet Magazine. Her work has been shown at galleries and venues in Paris, Chicago, and Northampton.
caitlin@membrana.us
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