General Assembly

Jessica Westbrook

Origin: Static Issue 08
Content: Text/Images

In this photographic work Westbrook collects images and digitally alters them to a state she calls ‘clinical neutrality’. Westbook categorizes these images according to the same roll of headings by which stock photography is governed. In this way, the usefulness of their labels and the photographs’ function as a generalized sign are at once affirmed and questioned.

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Commentary by Christien Garcia (pdf)

Contributor:

Jessica Westbrook is an artist working with photography, video, motion, semiotics, language, and information design. Her projects explore desire by examining cultural cues that have the capacity to register the contradictory aspects of everyday visual culture. Westbrook received her MFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and has exhibited internationally with shows in the USA, China, Sweden, Spain and Portugal.