About riel Sturchio
[Black and white portrait of riel Sturchio. They have medium-length, dark hair and glasses.]
riel (they/she) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice often utilizes photography and its extensions. Sturchio uses their experiences as a queer, chronically ill artist to provoke, and criticize socially idealized normative fantasies of beauty, ability, and gender identity. They pair their academic background in critical queer phenomenology, bodily disorientation, and affect to explore the sculptural tactility of sound, the mediation of distance through varieties of touch, and the value of bodily awareness. They are interested in how their body is forced into disorientation through disease and use this perspective as a foundation for evoking affect through their work. Currently, riel is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Iowa City, IA.
You can learn more about their fine art here.
Contact
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riel [at] utexas [dot] edu
Austin, TX, USA