Painting

Kayleigh Berry

Venus in Pixels

Kayleigh Berry’s fine art practise aims to explore contemporary society’s relationship with self-image. Technology and social media dunks our minds into an ever-sustaining tank of information and community. Our bodies, shrunken into themselves, becoming mere limbs. Our legs and arms, breasts and faces, become posters and mannequins, malleable and commodified. In response, Berry’s practise explores how the very act of painting allows one to view, experience, interpret and translate exclusively by the unification of body and mind. She attempts to tug at contemporary representation, pull it back and see how far it can stretch; Further aiming to challenge the image of the contemporary woman and ask her to define herself under the language of primal humanity. Berry uses the image of the female nude, calling back to classical painting while calling forward to modern female identity and sexuality. Colourful string and repetitive text emulate a web of over-saturation. Large selfies, blue and gold, hint to religious iconography, virtue and the divine feminine. Berry’s practise aims to enquire: How does our technological contemporary society toy with her image? Transcending beyond the screen, into the physical world, through the nature of human choreography, Berry’s paintings hope to challenge the disconnect between mind, body and meaning.

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