Jennifer Justice (Chicago, IL)
Incised Text (2003) In my current work, I examine the simplifications that occur in mapping, charting and writing. Meaning-making necessarily creates blind spots, blinders, filters and frames through which we come to know the world and function within it. I am interested in the limitations of text in terms of visibility, media saturation, literacy and context.
A key concern of my work has been a critical investment in the idea of the illegible body. As a person with a disability, I feel that it is crucial to make work that addresses the disabled body on the epistemological level. Disability has for centuries occupied a prominent place in art and literature. However, disabled artists have only sporadically assumed rightful authorship for the production of knowledge ascribed to them. My work is in fact the reclamation of knowledge and image, text and discourse.
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