EXHIBITION STATEMENT

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As users constantly reshape the internet, can we simultaneously expand notions of gender and normative modes of identity? Genoble's sculptural and digital works explore the interactions between technology and body.

To embrace and accept technology as an extension of our existence is to acknowledge the cyborg. First dates became dating apps, quality time became FaceTime, Zoom calls replaced meetings, and Snapping means staying in touch. Surveillance, being presumably omnipresent at this point, intrudes on our autonomy, cataloging into datasets to better sell us the next anxiety medicine or therapeutic massager. The internet’s role in shaping and disseminating identity affects the body in precarious, exploitive, and subtle ways that repetitively manipulate its form. As users, we are both responsible for the existence of the internet and the possibilities of its future. 

The adolescent experience of “becoming a woman” teaches us how to perform in our bodies in our environment, but what does the process “unbecoming” look like? Growing up in the conservative south, Genoble experienced rigid notions of gender and sexuality. Through her work, she attempts to break down these ideologies to extend the boundaries of what it means to occupy a prelabeled body and to perform within it.

Staging a new performance, Genoble's work breaks the prescribed objectives for the body, stretching it beyond its previously designated spaces. Her practice investigates the screen as an apparatus for allowing and denying visibility through exposure, overexposure, or no exposure at all. With dominance over our media, the internet reinforces what society pushes to be normalized. Breaking free of oppositional binaries and in alliance with technology, we can reject polarity.  In her installations, cast fragments of the human body are stretched across space and claw through digital screens. Navigating the post-human body, she explores how we construct ourselves to perform in the world with technology. The work visualizes laborious acts of rebellion of bodies in digital spaces as they are entangled with consumer capitalism. Synthetic materials, mass produced objects, and animal bones conglomerate as variable cyborgs. Sometimes sensual, sometimes violent, Genoble navigates the sea of bio-tracking, crypto-consumerist, and hypersexual manifestations of the digital self to envision a space that transcends societal norms.

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