Jamie Isenstein
In her video Thingamajig!, Jamie Isenstein films the dancer Elena Vazintaris reflected in a funhouse mirror of her own construction, conjuring a vaudevillian tango of disembodied limbs. Together with Isenstein's Body of Mirrors series of photographs, these works are some of the first instances of the artist inviting someone other than herself to perform in her work, further confusing the delineations between subject and object that have been her ongoing preoccupation.
Resolutely avoiding use of digital or AI effects, Isenstein turns an old-fashioned mode of entertainment into a lens for imagining unbridled bodily autonomy.
This work was included in the Body / Body / Body exhibition.
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Single channel video, dimensions variable
Accompanied by music composed by Paul Damian Hogan
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Certificate of authenticity signed by the artist
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Body / Body / Body offers an intimate counterpoint to an age of control: works that reclaim the body as a site of autonomy, performance, pleasure, and lived experience. With an unconventional use of materials, artists Jamie Isenstein, Fabienne Lasserre, and Sophy Naess reflect upon bodies through the lenses of feminism, humor, and imagination.
Meet Jamie Isenstein
Jaime Isenstein’s work spans sculpture, video, performance, painting, and photography, considering perception, subjectivity and the slippery nature of animate and inanimate existence. Her work has been described by art critic Roberta Smith, writing in The New York Times, as "cryptic and light, with an undertow of sorrow."
