Artist Statement

My research and art explores the intersection of capitalism, queerness, and technology, specifically examining hybridization in speculative fiction.

By adopting the structure of tech startups and incubator spaces in Silicon Valley, my work explores the underlying power dynamics present within corporate culture, which I position as #CorporateCore. Exploring the omnipresence of branded capitalism, my work uses the intricate mechanisms of advertisement, brand identity, and logomania to emulate the consumer obedience of brands such as Amazon, Adidas, and Apple.

To grapple with these ideas, I created a fictional corporation known as In-Techs, an enigmatic tech conglomerate that looms over a world where urban legends, conspiracy theories, and paranormal occurrences collide with the ever-evolving landscape of digital culture and cyber-punk aesthetics. Under the brand of In-Techs, I am able to understand the profound impact of corporate hegemony.

My work explores the concept of hybridization as a potent form of queer defiance that subverts the prevailing norms of heteronormativity and its pervasiveness in the tech sphere of Silicon Valley, otherwise known as Brotopia. This defiance against heteronormativity is a deliberate act of resistance, allowing me to explore conflict and contradiction as a means of progression. In the context of queerness, it embodies the rejection of fixed gender and sexual identities, embracing fluidity and nuanced complexity.

Through the lens of speculative fiction and the fictional entity of In-Techs, I explore hybridization as a means of queering the corporate landscape. This tech conglomerate stands as a testament to the rejection of conventional norms, where traditional boundaries between human and machine, reality and fantasy, and the known and the unknown are blurred.

Furthermore, this defiance through hybridization extends to the core of capitalist structures. By creating a fictional tech conglomerate that defies conventional corporate norms and challenges corporate power, my work engages in a form of queer resistance that questions the very foundations of capitalism itself.

Through the integration of emerging technological manufacturing methods, my work takes on the qualities of small-scale representation of commercial production processes, in an attempt to expose the homocapitalistic intentions of these corporations through queer industrial satire.