Chloe Chiasson
Region: MFA Annual
My passion is art and people. My interest is in the people who are
in between: between worlds or between genders. My position “in
between” has me defined by, trapped in, resisting, and breaking
free from the complex cultural debates of sexuality, gender, and
subjectivity. My work is a rejection of the mutual exclusiveness of
masculinity and femininity in favor of a simultaneous coexistence,
focusing on the process through which we come to find our
authentic selves, and the struggles that arise as we assert those
selves within constraining environments.
My delight in authenticity is pervasive and it disregards cultural
distinctions drawn in the realms of sex, gender, and sexuality.
An advocate of traversing these false borders, I create in order
to realize the generative tensions compelled and concealed by
an oppositional rationale, inspired by the desire to rebel against
the paradigm of sameness versus difference that has historically
suppressed nonconforming identities or expressions.