My work is a festering wound, celebrating its grotesqueness.
My conception was deemed to be a moral error. I was rejected by my patrilineal family, and told it was a shame that I was born. Here, my experience with abjection began. As I scoured the depths of my otherness, I birthed something wretched yet infallible. The spectres of my unrequited desire spawned fleshy fragments and estranged consciousnesses traversing the void of reckoning. This is a series of obsessions, compulsions, and cathartic transgressions, captured on film in visceral and confrontational strokes.
about the artist
Specializing in both video and photography, Salem Ashe uses experimental methods to sublimate the emotional experience into form. She takes power in her peculiartiy and confronts her wounds, addressing themes of transgression and abjection.
