Cassils

Cassils’s work positions their body as both the raw material and protagonist of their performances. For the Canadian/US-American artist, performance is a form of social sculpture, reflecting how bodies are shaped by external forces and social expectations. Cassils's art contemplates the history(s) of LGBTQI+ violence, representation, struggle, survival and empowerment. Incontrovertible Being, is a work in progress: a series of formal experiments that that pushes the physiology of the eye, which deconstruct the language of photography, explores how light both illuminates and obfuscates and reframes what it means to “see”. Employing a myriad of visual tactics – outlines and silhouettes, solar exposures, retinal burns, fl ashes, and Rorschach devices – the artist aims to complicate the conditions of trans* visibility in a moment of heightened violence.