Maya Kilic

Tug-of-War is from a series of works which play with the tradition of self-portraiture to depict reality as an interplay of physical, virtual and imagined realms. As the subject of her own work in these playful videos, Maya Kilic performs a series of imagined escapes from conventional systems of photographic representation and feminine self-representation. Using techniques of digital photomontage, Kilic exaggerates the slippages between dreams and reality, self and other, real and unreal.

Using screen-based softwares, Kilic virtually inserts herself into the natural world by embracing elements of digital artifice. Like the Surrealists of the 1920s–40s did with analogue technology, Kilic employs digital tactics to test the boundaries the boundaries between what is real and what is fabricated in an image.