“EDITOR’S PICK”
“PROVOCATIVE, HUMOROUS AND POTENT”
Interiors: We Are All Pink Inside is a unique, bold and visceral conceptual art series by Christen Clifford. The photos are video stills taken with a Japanese sex toy camera. The camera focuses about an inch from the lens, and has an LED light. The different colors and shades of pink are from the amount of light captured. There is no digital manipulation of the photos or videos. There is no color manipulation. Pink is a color of healing and solidarity.
INTERIORS: We Are All Pink Inside shows us how beautiful we all are, in these spaces that often hold trauma. Our orifices are all the same and all unique; we are all made up of the same parts, just organized in different ways.
INTERIORS: We Are All Pink Inside started with images inside of my vagina. The project expanded to include other genital orifices and Interior Portraits of cis and trans women, cis and trans men, non-binary and GNC friends and colleagues of all ages and colors. INTERIORS is a multidimensional project that includes installations, videos, projections, large scale photos, and an NFT of my cervix.
selected exhibition history
2024 Art and Abortion Access a collaboration with Reproductive Health Access Project
2023 Interiors video, chairs, beanbags and pillows featured in The Brooklyn Museum for 50 Years Since Roe: A Convening on Reproductive Justice in January, 2023.
2023 Interiors: We Are All Pink Inside 2 new and unique installations for UNCONDITIONAL CARE: Listening to People’s Health Needs (curated by Katrina Majkut) at Lewis-Clark State College Center for Arts & History and at Rochester Contemporary Arts Center.
2022 A new lecture performance called INTERIORITY at the Inverse Performance Festival at THE MOMENTARY in Bentonville, AR.
2022 Video, installation, and live Interior Portraits taken at Cindy Rucker Gallery, Abortion Stories curated by Cassandra Neyenesch, New York, NY
2022 Interiors #3 small at Border Project Space, Bodily Integrity curated by Jamie Martinez, New York, NY
2022 Interiors video at Lump Gallery, Abortion Stories USA curated by Rebecca Goyette, Raleigh, NC
2022 A new and unique installation of Interiors: We Are All Pink Inside (2022) was on view in The Will to Change: Gathering as Praxis at The Lyman Allyn Museum in New London Connecticut
2022 Another new and unique INTERIORS installation at Connecticut College, a whole gallery covered in pink plexiglass with pillows and videos.
2022 HD metal print of a photo, Interior 8.16 in PRESENT: Queer Art for the Here and Now curated by Eva Mueller.
2019 The installation Interiors: We Are All Pink Inside was shown in Curriculum: spaces of learning and unlearning at EFA Project Space, curated by Stamatina Gregory and Jeanne Vaccaro. and was a Critic’s Pick in Artforum and an Editor’s Pick in artnet.
2018 As a feminist-in-residence at Project for Empty Space, Clifford showed large scale C prints and HD Metal prints and an immersive installation with video.