Vita Bannister

Vita Sunshine Bannister (b. London, 2004) engages with light, text, textile, and paraphernalia, often working monochromatically, saturating spaces in a single tonal register and allowing colour to operate as both atmosphere and pressure. She constructs scenes or situations that invite prolonged looking, whilst withholding full access. Information is partial. Bodies appear as fragments, shadows, traces. The engine of her work ultimately lies in the tension between voyeurism and intimacy, display and concealment. While her created environments appear seductive or playful, they are also structured around restraint, and an unresolved edge that continues to shape the direction of her practice. There is pleasure in facilitating a sense of mystery and intrigue, and in turn allowing meanings to remain unstable.

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