Lilac Liaison by Keelin Montzingo (Strapped)

New York based painter Keelin Montzingo occupies the space between domestic privacy and the vast expanse of the internet. Drawn to the moment where secrecy and exhibitionism merge, Montingzo’s paintings explore the authorship of the gaze and how this has changed within the context of social media. Using the female form of figures which are taken directly from instagram accounts of influencers, models and brands observing how the semiotics of the female pose exist in an echo chamber where the real mirrors the constructed and the constructed seeks the real - in perpetuity.