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Signe Pierce | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Education | School of Visual Arts |
| Notable work | americanreflexxx |
| Website | signepierce |
Signe Pierce is an American artist who has worked in performance, photography, video and digital art. Her works, which "span photography, performance, and installation", [1] have been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, at the Museum of Modern Art [2] and the New Museum in New York, and at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. [3]
Pierce has a BFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. [4]
In 2013, she performed in a short film, American Reflexxx, shot by her girlfriend Alli Coates. [5] It shows Pierce, in a short dress and a mirror-finish mask, moving through the streets of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, where she is derided and then attacked. [6] [7] [8] [9] It was shown at "Bushwick Gone Basel", an event in a bar in Miami Beach during Art Basel Miami in 2013, [10] and at the BHFQU Brucennial in 2014. [11] It has been watched more than 1.7 million times on YouTube. [12] Rhizome called it "a brave work that construes many related topics within current cyberfeminist discourses", [13] while Art F City said it was "terrifying, surreal—and true." [10]
Pierce's work draws upon exaggerated hyperfeminine aesthetics, such as Barbie accessories [14] and pink and purple neon lights. [1] She has said she identifies as a feminist but has "been thinking about the binary aspects of the term 'feminist' and how we can move past gendered terms in general." [15]
Pierce records music under the name Big Sister and collaborated on several tracks with Sophie before the producer's death in 2021. One of these, "Do U Wanna Be Alive," was later released on Sophie's posthumous album. [16]
Pierce's work has also been shown at the Castor Gallery's SATELLITE Art Show (2016), [17] the Nathalie Halgand Galerie in Vienna (2017), [18] and the Annka Kultys Gallery in London (2018 & 2019). [19] In 2020, Pierce's work was one of 35 artists included in "Time for Outrage!" at the Kunstpalast Düsseldorf. [20]
