Sara Cwynar works across film, photography, and installation, surveying the transitory object-life of visual matter in our time of image infatuation. She is interested in how design and popular images work on our psyches, and how visual strategies infiltrate our consciousness. She considers how familiar, often sentimental, images smooth over unpleasant realities to cover up “the systems of control embedded within our social, economic, and political lives.” Her works include images of politicians, e-com models, social media platforms, art historical paintings, celebrity before and after images, idealised ‘healthy’ bodies, self-portraits, natural and digital depictions of nature, and more. In combining these references together, Cwynar is questioning what it means to be a subject in relation to our current overwhelming media landscape, where it is increasingly difficult to grasp what is true or real. Sara Cwynar (b. 1985, Vancouver, Canada) lives and works in New York, USA.