Madison Geores b.1998

Through an amalgamation of introspective and found narratives, Madison Geores deconstructs experienced linearity. Through the appropriation of film, Geores investigates the essences of filmic objects i.e., a prop and mise en scene in convergence with everyday experience and personal history. Geores’ filmic inspirations include Post-Depression American Film Noir, Lynchian Neo-Noir, and Mid-Century Francophonic Thrillers. Geores believes the recollection of fiction exists in cerebral conjunction with all other memory acting as a guiding path for personal narrative affecting expectations and desires that adheres to primal factors, sensation that contracts in and out of societal order and tradition. Geores focuses on films mediation of female experience through perception and reflections, actions and reactions which inevitably create a reordering of the female psyche. Geores investigates these themes through a variety of mediums ranging from ceramics, sculpture, wood carvings, and paintings, to large-scale installations. The wide variety of mediums she uses is due to an ardent curiosity of materiality as well as a deep consideration for material as a coded commodity in an economy of personal labor and Western Consumerism. In her installations Geores uses sound and lighting effects as signifiers defying a traditional sensational experience, transforming it into something lingering and foreboding like an inescapable memory. Geores’ acknowledgment of references but, the purposeful muddling of context, gives her work an apparition-like quality. In her unconventional making, she implements craft techniques perpetuating notions of Americana folk in conversation with phenomenological horror. Aesthetically naïve yet highly resolved Geores’ paintings comment on American domestic tradition honoring artists like Grandma Moses while teasing at an underbelly of female exploitation and repressed sexuality.  Through the fragmentation and presentation of traditional female narratives, Geores deals with an uncanniness, that upon expounding found fiction is resolved into something between fiction and reality that becomes hauntingly and increasingly parallel to female experiences in the postmodern.