PARIS EVERYDAY
BEAUTY IS RESISTANCE. BEAUTY IS NOT NEUTRAL.
IT IS A SITE OF CONFLICT. IT DISRUPTS HIERARCHIES.
For me, beauty was a resource that was in scarce supply throughout my life and it's attainment, a potential worth meditating on. When I detached from reality after identifying the body of my friend for detectives in Paris, in my mind, in my imagination, I shrouded myself with the architecture of the city. I wore the limestone like a cape to overcome the affects of the experience. My mind was the site of conflict as I was separated from inner and outward safety. My practice is personal, it documents my attempts at staying connected with the material world around me. This symbolic relationship and compulsion is called "anchoring" which is a common byproduct that often accompanies agoraphobic disorders. Paris broke me and Paris saved me.
Represented by Hoang Beli Gallery (Paris)
Noted Studio Visits in Residency
- The Presidential Delegation of Benin
- Rafael Pic [Editor & Chief | Le Quotidien de l'Art]
- Natalia Smalto (Philanthropist)
- Dexter Wimberly (Independent Curator & Sr. Critic New York Academy of Art)
- Mame Thiaw Diop [Historian | Museum of Black Civilizations (Senegal)]
- Skip Arnold (Performance Artist & Guggenheim Fellow)
- Shiva Lynn Burgos Artist | Curator
ART AS ARTIFACT | Established between Paris and Los Angeles, Keariene Muizz treats creation as evidence as a being who needs proof. Evaluating cultural objects through the lens of psychoanalytic inquiry. The vulnerable and exposed architectural landscape of Paris is the site for her work. She regards the sculptures as the secret citizens of Paris. The methods of her systematic investigation of the atmosphere occurs when physically installed throughout the arrondissements where she experiments with the psychological interplay of stimulus and subconscious imagined affects of iconography. Muizz's work intersects at the crossroads of convention and human experience. The cornerstone of her artistic practice is built upon The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud by the Hogarth Press, co-founded by Virginia Wolf, as Muizz spent half a year conducting in-depth research comprised of all twenty-three volumes at Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
Born in Chicago, Muizz attended La Sorbonne and holds a Bachelor's of Science Degree in Interdisciplinary Studies in Art & Analysis, combining art, psychology and computer science from California State University of Long Beach. Post educational studies were also conducted informally in nude drawing at the Otis College of Art & Design under Laddie John Dill.
