Jess Minckley

My studio practice- sculpture, drawing, performance & video- has always been about profound personal loss, narrating the stigmatization of mental illness as the result of trauma, in particular rape. These works formalize an allegory of the ineffability of the interior, secret emotional life of survivors. Performative gestures (or the remnant ephemera thereof) between the figure (my body) and these artifacts, sometimes depicted mise en scene, enact a complicated terrain of psychic and phenomenological narratives.