Kiki Seror
American and French, born 1970
Married at Dusk Killed at Dawn: 1001 Nights, 2001
Artwork Details
Materials
digital Duratrans color transparency in lightbox
Edition:
4/5
Measurements
overall (diameter): 49 inches (124.46 cm)
Collection Buffalo AKG Art Museum
Credit
Mildred Bork Conners & Joseph E. Conners Fund, by exchange, 2004
Accession ID
P2004:20
Kiki Seror’s work explores visceral descriptions of sexual arousal through text. Seror transforms sexually charged, X-rated conversations from Internet chat rooms into sculptural light objects. In 1996, she logged into her first pornographic chat room as an experiment that has since borne provocative fruit. In this and other works, Seror uses the transcripts from these anonymous explicit cybersex encounters as content for her work, illuminating how technology—specifically the Internet—blurs the boundaries between public and private realms.
Label from DECADE: Contemporary Collecting 2002–2012, August 21, 2012–January 6, 2013