Bianca Kennedy
ANGERS5-channel video, Found Footage, Loop
2024
Contemporary Hollywood is finally making room for women to vent the pent-up anger that society has suppressed for far too long. Bianca Kennedy's 5-channel installation of high-definition clips from the likes of Pearl and Don't Worry Darling reveal the raw and unpolished indignations displayed by female actors. The installation is presented in a 9:16 portrait format, disrupting the traditional cinema experience and confronting the audience with the intensity and emotionality of the scenes. The selection of filmed extracts reflects a range of emotions - from desperate rage to triumphant assertion - and invites reflection on how female anger has been historically misunderstood and pathologised.
About Bianca Kennedy (b. 1989, Leipzig) lives and works in Berlin. Using a range of mediums, including animation, virtual reality, found footage, and drawing, she explores everyday relationships and routines, reflecting on human behaviour, social norms, and expectations. In recent years, Kennedy's artistic focus has been on physical withdrawal, creating a series that examines the theatrics of bathing and the cultural coding of the unprotected, naked body. Through her works, she uncovers conflicts that exist within power dynamics and identity politics, and how they intersect within categories such as class, gender, privacy, and public space.
biancakennedy.com
2024
Contemporary Hollywood is finally making room for women to vent the pent-up anger that society has suppressed for far too long. Bianca Kennedy's 5-channel installation of high-definition clips from the likes of Pearl and Don't Worry Darling reveal the raw and unpolished indignations displayed by female actors. The installation is presented in a 9:16 portrait format, disrupting the traditional cinema experience and confronting the audience with the intensity and emotionality of the scenes. The selection of filmed extracts reflects a range of emotions - from desperate rage to triumphant assertion - and invites reflection on how female anger has been historically misunderstood and pathologised.
About Bianca Kennedy (b. 1989, Leipzig) lives and works in Berlin. Using a range of mediums, including animation, virtual reality, found footage, and drawing, she explores everyday relationships and routines, reflecting on human behaviour, social norms, and expectations. In recent years, Kennedy's artistic focus has been on physical withdrawal, creating a series that examines the theatrics of bathing and the cultural coding of the unprotected, naked body. Through her works, she uncovers conflicts that exist within power dynamics and identity politics, and how they intersect within categories such as class, gender, privacy, and public space.
biancakennedy.com