Biography
Evelyn Leder (b. 1964, New Orleans) is a San Francisco–based artist working in photography, film, video, and electronic arts. Their work interrogates the politics of visibility through queer refusal and visual reorientation. Recent series such as The Objects and The Parts disrupt coherence by composing doubled, rotated images that suggest new bodily configurations and provisional identities. Leder’s work has been presented in solo exhibitions at Black and White Projects, and featured at SOMArts, Root Division, Southern Exposure, University of San Francisco, and Scope Art Fair NYC. They are a four-time recipient of the San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Commission.
Artist Statement
Leder’s work concerns itself with the tensions inherent in the recorded image: It’s seductive nature, the flickering light, the voyeurism, the acts of looking and being seen and the power of the gaze. Their work focuses on recontextualizing gender and the socially agreed-upon constructs that hold up our gender, race and sexuality systems.