KAIA
KING-HALL
Kaia Love King-Hall (b. 2002) is an artist and curator from Jacksonville, Florida. She is currently working towards her Bachelor’s in Art at the University of California, Irvine, and lives in Los Angeles. Predominantly working in sculpture and video, her work accentuates the perversion that often stands in broad daylight, but is disguised by tourism, play, and fantastical realities. King-Hall recently curated and produced three exhibitions: Cold Turkey, POWER GRAB, and Spring Chickens, in an effort to create opportunity amongst her community.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Kaia King-Hall investigates how pleasure, fetishization, and consumption become intertwined with myth, shame, and deception. She takes an interdisciplinary approach, working in sculpture, video, performance, audio, and painting. Frequently employing her own body, both physically and through representation, the work complicates ideas of consent, perversion, and beauty. Her work complicates ideas of consent, perversion, and beauty. Depicting her body in various submissive postures proposes an ambiguous structure of power: is she putting herself in this position, or is someone else? Her upbringing in Northern Florida has become the central theme of her practice. When visiting, encounters with family, advertisements, gift shops, and roadside attractions become reference, supported by my personal archive of photo and video. Heightening the already present debauchery within Florida’s subcultures, she accentuates the perversion that often stands in broad daylight, but is disguised by tourism, play, and fantastical realities. Here is a suggested edit with some of the language refined.
