What does feminist art look like? Where can we find feminism reveal itself in sculpture?
As the feminist artist Judy Chicago quotes, "People have accepted the media's idea of what feminism is, but that doesn't mean that it's right or true or real. Feminism is not monolithic. Within feminism, there is an array of options."
Saskya Fun Sang's artwork evokes an emotional and physical response, it asks questions and provides the viewer with an array of options. In a Post-Feminist gaze, Fun Sang's sculptural works ask the viewer to respond to how we relate to intimacy, sexuality, and the body. These questions are relevant in a time where we are consumed with hyper-technology and non-physical connection. Fun Sang uses an intimate hand-building technique to create ceramic and fiber sculptures that utilize both a figurative and abstract vocabulary inviting the viewer in but also concealing and hiding details as metaphor.
Meaningful art solicits the viewer to ask questions. Saskya Fun Sang's work is bridging a new dialogue of feminist language in clay and fiber materials, and asking important questions about the body, intimacy, and sexuality.
- William J. O'Brien, artist
---------------------------- El arte como el sexo, siempre intenso.
Women, bodies, gender, sex, sexuality, orgasm, boobs, nipples, vaginas, vulvas, clitoris, puta, sluts, language, weight, layers of skin, volume, imperfections, empowerment, disobedience, excess, moans, fluids, energy, love, sisters, baggage, pain, loss, strength, courage, womanhood, voices, honesty, transparency, sharing, feelings, hornyness, emotions, foreplay, relationships, broken hearts, tears, blood, bruises, legs, mouths, kisses, lovers, darkness, sensitivity, sensibility, non-binary, sunlight, rain, difficult women, femmes, liars, lies, wetness, marks, scars, curves, lips, touch, contact, hugs, preconceptions, nudity, shame, misunderstandings, fucking technology, dating apps, nasty women, eating disorders, self-harm, self-esteem, mujeres difíciles, expectations, disappointments, survival, safety, pleasure, innocence, guilt, sins, sinners, the female gaze, fears, gold, beauty, perverts, cunts, feminism, FEMINIST.
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Saskya Fun Sang (1991) is a multidisciplinary artist and art educator from Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Her artistic practice is primarily focused around gender and women issues, feminism, and the female body. Her work has been shown in and outside Ecuador in spaces such as +ARTE Galería Taller, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo and Arte Actual FLACSO in Quito, VIOLENTA and DPM Galería in Guayaquil, Woman Made Gallery and OPEN Center for the Arts in Chicago, St. Louis Artists’ Guild in St. Louis and she has been part of +ARTE Galería’s booth in Contemporary art fairs such as PaRc Lima in Perú, ChACO in Chile. and PINTA in Miami.
Saskya has gained knowledge in the Art Administration and curatorial fields in spaces such as +ARTE Galería Taller (Ecuador), Woman Made Gallery (Chicago) and A.I.R. Gallery (NY) and has continuously obtained experience about Museum and Art Education through various professional opportunities at the Art Institute of Chicago.
She obtained her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) with emphasis on Ceramics, and fiber and Material Studies in May 2016 and her MA in Art Education at the same institution in May 2019.
Saskya is currently a Fiber Arts teacher at Universidad San Francisco de Quito.
Living and working (and crying and laughing) in Ecuador.
*Yo vengo del vientre, vengo a vivir.
As the feminist artist Judy Chicago quotes, "People have accepted the media's idea of what feminism is, but that doesn't mean that it's right or true or real. Feminism is not monolithic. Within feminism, there is an array of options."
Saskya Fun Sang's artwork evokes an emotional and physical response, it asks questions and provides the viewer with an array of options. In a Post-Feminist gaze, Fun Sang's sculptural works ask the viewer to respond to how we relate to intimacy, sexuality, and the body. These questions are relevant in a time where we are consumed with hyper-technology and non-physical connection. Fun Sang uses an intimate hand-building technique to create ceramic and fiber sculptures that utilize both a figurative and abstract vocabulary inviting the viewer in but also concealing and hiding details as metaphor.
Meaningful art solicits the viewer to ask questions. Saskya Fun Sang's work is bridging a new dialogue of feminist language in clay and fiber materials, and asking important questions about the body, intimacy, and sexuality.
- William J. O'Brien, artist
---------------------------- El arte como el sexo, siempre intenso.
Women, bodies, gender, sex, sexuality, orgasm, boobs, nipples, vaginas, vulvas, clitoris, puta, sluts, language, weight, layers of skin, volume, imperfections, empowerment, disobedience, excess, moans, fluids, energy, love, sisters, baggage, pain, loss, strength, courage, womanhood, voices, honesty, transparency, sharing, feelings, hornyness, emotions, foreplay, relationships, broken hearts, tears, blood, bruises, legs, mouths, kisses, lovers, darkness, sensitivity, sensibility, non-binary, sunlight, rain, difficult women, femmes, liars, lies, wetness, marks, scars, curves, lips, touch, contact, hugs, preconceptions, nudity, shame, misunderstandings, fucking technology, dating apps, nasty women, eating disorders, self-harm, self-esteem, mujeres difíciles, expectations, disappointments, survival, safety, pleasure, innocence, guilt, sins, sinners, the female gaze, fears, gold, beauty, perverts, cunts, feminism, FEMINIST.
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Saskya Fun Sang (1991) is a multidisciplinary artist and art educator from Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Her artistic practice is primarily focused around gender and women issues, feminism, and the female body. Her work has been shown in and outside Ecuador in spaces such as +ARTE Galería Taller, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo and Arte Actual FLACSO in Quito, VIOLENTA and DPM Galería in Guayaquil, Woman Made Gallery and OPEN Center for the Arts in Chicago, St. Louis Artists’ Guild in St. Louis and she has been part of +ARTE Galería’s booth in Contemporary art fairs such as PaRc Lima in Perú, ChACO in Chile. and PINTA in Miami.
Saskya has gained knowledge in the Art Administration and curatorial fields in spaces such as +ARTE Galería Taller (Ecuador), Woman Made Gallery (Chicago) and A.I.R. Gallery (NY) and has continuously obtained experience about Museum and Art Education through various professional opportunities at the Art Institute of Chicago.
She obtained her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) with emphasis on Ceramics, and fiber and Material Studies in May 2016 and her MA in Art Education at the same institution in May 2019.
Saskya is currently a Fiber Arts teacher at Universidad San Francisco de Quito.
Living and working (and crying and laughing) in Ecuador.
*Yo vengo del vientre, vengo a vivir.