Längtan/oro

2022
Textile (weave)  

Till mig

2021
Textile (weave)    

Hejdå

2020
Fabric collage  

Untitled

2023
Textile (weave)  

Mastektomi

2020
Embroidery 

Ät upp

2022
Embroidery   

Händer mot himmel

2019
Embroidery 

Babe

2020
Textile (weave)  

Courtesy of: Västra Götalands Regionen

Longing and worry – two seemingly opposite feelings can coexist within a body, tied together in their similarities and differences. Dividing lines between feelings fade, not as clear as they used to be. McChesney’s practice aims at capturing the different contexts we inhabit, the invisible layers that affect how we perceive everyday life. Memories, mental images, thoughts, physical bodies and internet personas all mix into a single body and mind. Personhood emerges from a number of overlapping dimensions in different constellations. An individual is a part of something larger. Everything melts together: feelings, bodies, identities, environments, and what we create.     

Esse McChesney is a textile artist whose work engages with gender and sexuality between physical and digital frames. They approach this subject from the position of a queer non-binary trans person, revealing experiences of life, love, and self-acceptance in a non-normative contemporary human existence.   

 McChesney has recently exhibited at: Kronhuset Göteborg; Galleri Thomassen; Göteborg Konstmuseet; Konstepidemin; Vulkano; Spark Plug; and Risetstämman 

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