JESSICA LOU DILLON (B. 1986 Pennsylvania, USA)
is an artist and writer who’s work extends out from their own lived bodily experience to create an expanded field of embodied language used to condense and restrict material accumulation through framed and edited modes of thought, gesture and documentation. The resulting ephemera is mobilized to form fluid and temporary identity hypotheses that reform and eschew trauma surrounding gender, disability, and mixed cultural lineages of colonialism, exile and diaspora. Meaning is imbued, flexible, time based, and disappearing. Dillon navigates the razor’s edge of body and mind where individual and collective worlds collide and end; where each annihilation is the only place to rebuild. Each thought form established like a breath of life rebuilding integrity toward a transient sense of self lost and stored in forms of societal oppression and control; a patriarchal unraveling and reclaiming while still inhabiting a body where trauma, lives, and bodies are stored. Dillon holds an MFA from ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, CA. Her work has been shown in Los Angeles and New York and internationally in France and Germany.