Hannah Perry mainly produces work that involves installation, printmaking, video, and sculpture. Perry manipulates and generates multi media materials and develops them into her art work which portrays the hyper-technological society we live in. Perry demonstrates personal experiences and videos that are then juxtaposed with video archives, creating a collage of universal experiences that reflect the reality of being young such as sex, power, and gender.
Perry uses her own intimate personal images and videos and documents them to use for her art work. Once Perry has collected all her images, videos and sounds she combines them all together and then displays monitors around her installation such as her metallic sheet sculptures, where the sound is so loud and has such a low bass to them that it ripples through the metallic sheets creating waves.
What really interests me about Hannah Perry’s work is the metallic sheets she creates, as this is something I am experimenting around with within my practice. I am screen printing my distorted face onto this scrap aluminum sheet, the aluminum sheet is covered in blemishes and scratches however this adds to my art work, the idea that you don’t have to be perfect and nothing is really ever perfect. The scratches add a nice contrast between the screen print and the background.
Perry’s video and installations explore stereotypes generally associated with femininity and hysteria and also looking at machismo and industrialism and juxtaposes them, she explores all of these and creates art work depicting the idea that women are more machismo now and roles have reversed however we are yet still being criticized and judged as females within todays society.
“Perry’s work sits well alongside that of older artists like Mark Leckey or Dara Birnbaum as well as the post-internet new wave that have been so active in recent years. She has a cut-and-paste style that feeds on an awareness of gender, social class, lifestyle, and her own experience. “It’s not really about me as a character, more about one’s experiences,” she points out. Decidedly nonlinear, the work is “about things getting confused along the way and a bit messy.” from: Up and Coming: Mounting Her U.S Debut, British Artist Hannah Perry Plays a Deconstructed Film to an L.A. Audience – Artsy