Kiley Brandt

“My art is inherently political due to the nature of my identity. I am a transnational adoptee, and I am exploring in my research the boundaries between home, created space, mythology, ritual, and site. I frequently use digital media to do this, finding a connection between projected light and the intangibility of memory and personal mythologies. Many of the pieces I produce span mediums such as video installations, legal forms, soundscapes, and poetry. In my practice I try to maintain honesty and emotion while also seeking to disrupt comfort. I want my work to compel uncertainty in the space that people occupy, whether that is the gallery space or their own bodies. I am working in topics personal to me, such as interracial adoption, diaspora, and immigration but I am also fascinated by film, advertisement, and spectacle in relation to race theory. My work is often poetic in nature and enmeshed in not just emotional reaction but physical sensation.”