ESSE MCCHESNEY (SE)
Längtan/oro
2022
Textile (weave)
Till mig
2021
Textile (weave)
Hejdå
2020
Fabric collage
Untitled
2023
Textile (weave)
Mastektomi
2020
Embroidery
Ät upp
2022
Embroidery
Händer mot himmel
2019
Embroidery
Babe
2020
Textile (weave)
Courtesy of: Västra Götalands Regionen
Longing and worry – two seemingly opposite feelings can coexist within a body, tied together in their similarities and differences. Dividing lines between feelings fade, not as clear as they used to be. McChesney’s practice aims at capturing the different contexts we inhabit, the invisible layers that affect how we perceive everyday life. Memories, mental images, thoughts, physical bodies and internet personas all mix into a single body and mind. Personhood emerges from a number of overlapping dimensions in different constellations. An individual is a part of something larger. Everything melts together: feelings, bodies, identities, environments, and what we create.
BIOGRAPHY
Esse McChesney is a textile artist whose work engages with gender and sexuality between physical and digital frames. They approach this subject from the position of a queer non-binary trans person, revealing experiences of life, love, and self-acceptance in a non-normative contemporary human existence.
McChesney has recently exhibited at: Kronhuset Göteborg; Galleri Thomassen; Göteborg Konstmuseet; Konstepidemin; Vulkano; Spark Plug; and Risetstämman
VENUE
Röda Sten Konsthall