Jenn Berger | You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)

Look At Me, single channel video projection, charcoal on paper, and fur on chicken wire and wood, 16' x 12' x 4'

I Wanna Eat You Up, graphite on paper, 7' x 5'

Death Mask For Mom-mom, ink on acrylic and single channel video projection, 1' x 1' (acrylic) and 3' x 5' (video projection)

Little Chicken, C-41 print, wallet

Eulogy For Dad, digital print on aluminum, 5' 7" x 3'

You Were Holding Me In California While My Grandfather Was Dying In Maryland, single channel video projection, 3' x 5'

Excerpts from You Were Holding Me In California While My Grandfather Was Dying In Maryland

I Hit My Sister With A Bat (A Therapist Told Me To Do It), single channel video on monitor, 3' x 5'

Excerpts from I Hit My Sister With A Bat (A Therapist Told Me To Do It)

Baby On Fire, single channel video projection, 8' x 6'

Baby On Fire - play to view video

I Heart My Sister's Vagina, t-shirt

You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)

You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch) associates familial bonds with animal/human relationships. These works explore, on the one hand, the distance that drives our desire to get close to animals, and conversely, the proximity that breeds a sense of otherness and dominance amongst familial tribes. With the artist’s family members standing in for the roles of father, sister, grandmother, the works are a play between autobiographical and imagined scenarios.

You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch) was presented at University Art Gallery, UC Irvine, May 2014.