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 an interdisciplinary artist and educator from Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Her creative and academic research derives from Gender and Women's Studies and Feminism, while her artistic practice (mostly soft sculpture, textile-based work, collage and ceramics) is constantly exploring what breaks and re-builds human relationships.
Her artistic work has been shown in and outside Ecuador in spaces such as +ARTE Galería, 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, and St. Louis Artists’ Guild in St. Louis. Saskya has also been part of +ARTE Galería’s booth in Contemporary art fairs such as PaRc Lima in Perú, ChACO in Chile and PINTA in Miami, while her curatorial projects have been shown in MEDIAAGUA, Q Galería, and Centro de Arte Contemporáneo in Quito.
Saskya gained experience in the fields of Art Administration and Curatorial Practice through research and exhibition assistant positions at Woman Made Gallery (Chicago), A.I.R. Gallery (New York), and +ARTE Galería (Quito). She also developed professional expertise in Museum Education at the Art Institute of Chicago, working with the Youth & Family Division (2015), Family Programs (2017), and Teacher Programs (2018). She received her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in 2016, with an emphasis on Ceramics and Fiber & Material Studies, and went on to complete her MA in Art Education at the same institution in 2019. During her MAAE program, she was awarded the New Artist Society Scholarship, as well as the Graduate Dean Professional Development Award and the SAIC MAAE Fellowship Award for her thesis project Mujeres Difíciles.
Saskya is currently a Visual Arts Professor 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 an interdisciplinary artist and educator from Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Her creative and academic research derives from Gender and Women's Studies and Feminism, while her artistic practice (mostly soft sculpture, textile-based work, collage and ceramics) is constantly exploring what breaks and re-builds human relationships.
Her artistic work has been shown in and outside Ecuador in spaces such as +ARTE Galería, 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, and St. Louis Artists’ Guild in St. Louis. Saskya has also been part of +ARTE Galería’s booth in Contemporary art fairs such as PaRc Lima in Perú, ChACO in Chile and PINTA in Miami, while her curatorial projects have been shown in MEDIAAGUA, Q Galería, and Centro de Arte Contemporáneo in Quito.
Saskya gained experience in the fields of Art Administration and Curatorial Practice through research and exhibition assistant positions at Woman Made Gallery (Chicago), A.I.R. Gallery (New York), and +ARTE Galería (Quito). She also developed professional expertise in Museum Education at the Art Institute of Chicago, working with the Youth & Family Division (2015), Family Programs (2017), and Teacher Programs (2018). She received her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in 2016, with an emphasis on Ceramics and Fiber & Material Studies, and went on to complete her MA in Art Education at the same institution in 2019. During her MAAE program, she was awarded the New Artist Society Scholarship, as well as the Graduate Dean Professional Development Award and the SAIC MAAE Fellowship Award for her thesis project Mujeres Difíciles.
Saskya is currently a Visual Arts Professor at Universidad San Francisco de Quito.
Living and working (and crying and laughing) in Ecuador.
*Yo vengo del vientre, vengo a vivir.