Artist:

HEIDI WIREN BARTLETT

www.heidiwiren.com

 

I am an interdisciplinary performance artist from the Great Plains. My work is concerned with the portrayal, oppression and subversive existence of women in America today. As a white woman raised by a lesbian on the plains of Nebraska, I feel obligated to confront racial and misogynistic injustice and my escape from it, into the prairie. I see my body as an object of power and vulnerability and I see Nature and its processes the same way. Together these inspire a practice that illuminates the overlooked and forgotten. Whether creating laborious action or still objects, I want to blur the line between public and private; deconstructing notions of gender, race and corporeality through sculpture, photographs, moving image and performance.