https://sharonyoungstudio.com

“I am an artist working with photography, film, performance and writing. My work is concerned with systems of oppression – told through an approach to writing and image making which constantly slips between fact and fiction. I have always found the still photographic image to be very limiting. This frustration drew me to introduce text alongside my photographs. Not in order to anchor my photographs to a particular meaning, but, to recognise and assert the polysemy of the image. In my work the disjunction occurring between images and words opens a space of reflection, interpretation and reverie not domination of text over image or vice versa. I speak as a woman, yet my work is caught up in current debates on gender. I hope that the tension between a refusal to be assigned a fixed identity and the necessity to speak from a fixed identity, will result in a creative