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Signe Pierce

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]

Signe Pierce
NationalityAmerican
EducationSchool of Visual Arts
Notable workamericanreflexxx.com
Websitesignepierce.tumblr.com

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]

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  1. ^ a b Buffenstein, Alyssa (22 November 2016). "10 Young Female Artists' Perspectives on Femininity Today". Artnet News. Archived from the original on 11 August 2022. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
  2. ^ "The Eyeslicer Presents". The Museum of Modern Art. 17 February 2019. Archived from the original on 17 May 2022. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
  3. ^ Fraschini, Gaia (16 October 2015). "What's Real ? Signe Pierce". Vogue Italia (in Italian). Archived from the original on 23 June 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
  4. ^ "Exhibition - Presented by BFA Photography and Video - Photoville". School of Visual Arts. September 2015. Archived from the original on 5 April 2022. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
  5. ^ "Inside the Hot Pink Barbie Bungalow of Artists, 'Cyberfeminists' and Real-Life Couple Signe Pierce and Alli Coates". Paper Magazine. 21 April 2015. Archived from the original on 30 November 2021.
  6. ^ Chiaverina, John (4 May 2015). "'We Didn't Set Out to Make a Piece About Dehumanization, Mob Mentality, or Violence': Alli Coates and Signe Pierce Talk 'AMERICAN REFLEXXX'". ARTnews. Archived from the original on 28 January 2022. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
  7. ^ Leifheit, Matthew (23 April 2015). "Watch Transphobia Fuel an Angry, Violent Mob in Myrtle Beach". Vice. Archived from the original on 21 June 2022. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
  8. ^ Valentine, Ben. "Masking Against The Neoliberal Gaze". Open Space: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Archived from the original on 16 July 2021. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
  9. ^ Manders, Hayden (24 April 2015). "American Reflexxx Video - Signe Pierce Alli Coates". Nylon. Archived from the original on 24 September 2021. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
  10. ^ a b Leifheit, Matthew; Farley, Michael (10 December 2013). "One More Thing About Miami: Bushwick Goes Basel". Art F City. Archived from the original on 21 January 2022. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
  11. ^ Miller, M. H. (7 March 2014). "Ladies' Night: On the BHFQU's Record-Breaking Last Brucennial". The Observer. Archived from the original on 28 May 2022. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
  12. ^ "American Reflexxx". YouTube. 7 April 2015.
  13. ^ Avedisian, Alexis Anais (19 August 2015). "Interview: American Reflexxx". Rhizome. Archived from the original on 24 October 2020. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
  14. ^ Gamble, Ione (9 June 2017). "Immerse yourself in Signe Pierce's neon hyperreality". Dazed Digital. Retrieved 27 September 2024.
  15. ^ Diekoff, Gabrielle (10 August 2016). "Signe Pierce is the Fresh Face of the Cyberfeminist Art Scene: BUST Interview". Bust. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
  16. ^ "Signe Pierce". YouTube. Retrieved 27 September 2024.
  17. ^ Uszerowicz, Monica (5 December 2016). "The Most Uncanny Installations at Miami Art Week". Vice. Archived from the original on 3 November 2022. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
  18. ^ Moravec, Lisa (23 March 2017). "Virtual Normality - Signe Pierce at Galerie Nathalie Halgand". Widewalls. Archived from the original on 15 August 2020. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
  19. ^ "Signe Pierce". Annka Kultys Gallery. 29 June 2018. Archived from the original on 19 October 2022. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
  20. ^ Beckonert, Matthias (29 October 2020). "'Time for Outrage!': art for challenging times". Deutsche Welle. Archived from the original on 24 February 2022. Retrieved 28 November 2022.


 

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