JENNIFER MEHIGAN HAS ALWAYS BEEN SITUATED SOMEWHERE BETWEEN ART AND DESIGN, AND IN THE PAST FEW YEARS SHE HAS FOCUSED ON WIDENING THE SCOPE OF TECHNOLOGIES SHE USE TO INCLUDE MODES OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND VIRTUAL/AUGMENTED REALITY, FLORISTRY, WRITING, PARTIES, AND MEDITATIVE PERFORMANCES AND FILMS.
ARTIST BIO
Jennifer Mehigan is an artist and researcher based in Belfast. Her work is currently focused on suppressed Irish lesbian historical figures and their graves as horticultural sites, uncovering queer strategies for surviving our crises of kinship and climate. Recent exhibitions include On Refusal, transmediale, Berlin (2021) and Creamatorium, PS², Belfast (2020). Jennifer regularly collaborates with Bassam Al-Sabah.
Girls Gone Feral VIII, 2018, Jennifer Mehigan, 50 x 70cm, inkjet on paper
HARDCORE VANILLA RAIN Publication, Jennifer Mehigan, 2021
HER WORKS OCCUPY A SPACE WHERE POP CULTURE, DIGITAL PAINTING, CRITICAL THEORY, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, “PUBLIC FEELINGS” (AFTER ANN CVETCOVICH) AND SELF-HELP LITERATURE CAN INTERACT, ALLOWING HER TO INVESTIGATE, OFTEN THROUGH A NON-HUMAN LENS, HOW POWER MANIFESTS IN THE WORLD.
Jennifer is part of FRUIT SHOP which was formed during the summer of 2020 after a series of fortunate coincidences and connections. Operating as an artist-run cafe and retail space in a suburban neighbourhood of South Belfast, the collective designs and programmes creative communal experiences with a focus on developing relationships with local producers and grassroots growing initiatives.
Image from Uillinn (Virtual) Residency, Jennifer Mehigan, West Cork Arts Centre, Drishane House, 2021
TITLE
XXXL IV
ARTIST
Jennifer Mehigan
ABOUT THE WORK
The work XXXL IV is part of XXXL, a series of images that reference female masculinity, shapeshifting dominatrixes, viral bodies, and glitched landscapes. In this series, Jennifer Mehigan has digitally merged manifestations of gender with sinkholes, portals, hell holes and geological features such as rocks, minerals, blobs, and cracks. This particular piece is based around more geological forms.
*Please note this work does not come framed.
DATE
2015
DIMENSIONS
70cm (h) x 50cm (w)
MEDIUM
Inkjet on paper
ORIGINAL WORK / EDITION
Edition of 3, authenticated by the artist
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jennifer Mehigan is interested in how power manifests in the world. Her works have always been situated somewhere between art and design, and in the past few years she has focused on widening the scope of technologies she uses to include modes of artificial intelligence and virtual/augmented reality, floristry, writing, parties, and meditative performances and films.
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An installation shot of Creamatorium: A collection of sculptures, images, and text by Jennifer Mehigan at PeasPark, North Belfast, 2020 (Reading by Ria Adeyinka, a non-binary performer from Derry)
