Sofia Cianciulli is a multi-disciplinary body artist from Florence, Italy. Cianciulli grew up surrounded by Renaissance art history’s sexual connotations and later was influenced by the individualism and diversity of New York feminism. After completing her MA in Fine Art and Central Saint Martins, Cianciulli was shortlisted for The Ingram Prize. Cianciulli combines painting, performance, digital media, and augmented reality to consider the female body in the post-feminist media age. Her work reflects upon the entangled and co-dependent nature of millennials and the internet, responding with absolute transparency to modern narrative conventions that are an inextricable part of her reality. The understanding of the self in contemporary digital culture is influenced by a not-so-obvious layer of technology. New tools and software redefine what is possible to be as subjects in media culture, while we constitute ourselves through these very means. In this system of unattainable representation, the production of identity falls into a state of uncertainty at the expense of subjectivity. In her newest body of work, Sofia Cianciulli confronts themes of sexuality, identity deconstruction, and body commodification in digital culture. Through self-portraits, which are conceptual representations of modern practices, the artist reveals the idea of the project and triggers a confrontation with idealized representations of identity.
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