SADIE

SADIE is one of 2 installation series for the bondsge vanguards of J’ Atelier9’s solo exhibit: AVANT GARDE at The Glenmark.

The S&M bondage vanguards illustrate the utmost secrets we keep hidden away.. buried by the shame from traditional cultures. The vanguards disrupt this notion of being disgraceful within their dehumanization, to maintain their conforming or morale image.

The netted mesh provide the anonymous vanguards with a sense of personality, style, and individual voice; while protecting their real identity.

The anonymity of the covered faces highlight our dehumanized culture of hiding behind screens, emails, texts, pseudonyms to mask ourselves in creating distance, gate keepers, space, privacy, or avoiding physical contact & personal interaction.

The masks illustrate the double edge sword, where stigmatized behaviors of the criminal or perverse can reveal one’s truest or deepest expression or dark vices; yet the anonymity allows one to behave recklessly or without regard, especially when there is no specific identity attached to the individual.