Sean Synnuck
Sean Synnuck – BA/BFA
Whether zoom meetings or dating profiles, the presentation of our image is increasingly dominated by its digital manifestations. Profiles become your stall in an online marketplace where through codification into grids, bodies are repackaged for easier consumption as your body becomes your brand. To be muscular, hairless, ‘masc’ or ‘femme’ enough are all pressures to compete, to present, to perform, to constantly monitor your body in relation to its digital manifestation.
Influenced by the relationships between social pressures and perception of the body such as this, I create semi human objects which often exist as props in video and performances intended to disorient or subvert aspects of spectatorship.