Interdisciplinary artist Sondra Perry works in video, computer-based media, and performance exploring what she calls the “slippages of identity” that defines subjective experience in the digital world. Attentive to the artistic and social implications of the media through which stories are told, Perry embeds time-based work into immersive audio-visual and sculptural installations, fiercely bringing together the virtual and real. Making work informed by the political as well as formal concerns, she examines the complexity of being a physical being in an increasingly digital world. Her interest in lineage, identity, and community experience led her to look into her grandmother's childhood working as a sharecropper in North Carolina. Drawing on personal memories, an intensive study of psychoanalysis, and extensive research while utilizing AI technology, Perry found scant trace of either her family or the location of the farm. In bringing the language of dreams and a master’s craft, Perry has created visceral works out of that which is incomplete or has been lost.

photo by Travis Matthews