riel and Bianca Sturchio

riel and Bianca Sturchio
Light Through Leaf, 2019
Paper Size: 22x27 inches
Edition of 20
Inkjet print produced by Light Work and signed by the artist.

"before the last lilac blooms" is an ongoing collaborative film photography project between twin siblings Bianca Sturchio (she/her) and riel Sturchio (they/she). Bianca and riel utilize photography to provoke and examine the vulnerability they experience from their unique manifestations of queer identity, illness, and disability. Through ambiguously cropped images of the body, visual metaphors, and documented and constructed scenes, they explore and convey challenging and often invisible aspects within the intimate world-building they share, imagine, and create. 

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riel Sturchio (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist. They use their experiences with queerness and illness to provoke, and criticize socially idealized normative fantasies of beauty, ability, and gender identity. They are interested in how their body is forced into disorientation through disease and use this disoriented perspective as a foundation for active witnessing rituals. 

Bianca (she/her) is a mixed-media artist and graduate holding a MSW (2020) and BSW in (2019) from the University of Southern Maine. Bianca uses her lived experiences of disability and queerness to inform both her professional and creative pursuits.

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