{"title":"Feris","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg style=\"max-height: 300px; max-width:55%\" src=\"https:\/\/helloart-prod-bucket.s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com\/media\/artist\/feris\/feris-profile.jpg\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeris (b. 1995) is an artist based in Vancouver, BC.\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eHis work explores identity through constructed characters, using self-portraiture to navigate the space between performance, visibility, and selfhood. The figures he creates evolve from and reflect his own journey — often shaped through close observation of himself, others, and the broader culture around him.\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eFeris’s practice is both aesthetic and introspective, involving costuming, makeup, digital editing, and layered visual languages. Through these methods he builds fictional yet emotionally charged worlds — part theatre, part myth — where each image functions as a fragment of a larger narrative. Storytelling becomes a way to translate personal experience into mythic form, turning inner conflict into atmosphere and character.\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eAcross his evolving practice, the body becomes both subject and surface — at times adorned, erased, or idealized — offering a quiet tension between beauty and disappearance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eARTIST’S STATEMENT\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy practice explores the architecture of entrapment—the invisible systems, social roles, and cultural scripts we inhabit without awareness, and identity as something performed rather than an inherent embodiment.\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eI work exclusively in self-portraiture, using my own body as the sole site of transformation through prosthetics, makeup, costume, and performance. This method is the core argument: if identity is merely something we assemble and perform, then a self-portrait practice where the self is never repeated is its most honest form.\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eAcross the work, a shapeshifting figure emerges—a clowning, fluid presence that can become anyone, and is therefore no one. This figure functions as a vessel to navigate the cages of modern existence: testing confinement, mocking societal absurdity, fracturing identity under pressure, and drowning in the digital feed.\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eFramed as an evolving, continuous mythos rather than a sequence of separate projects, the work accumulates meaning over time. Early images recontextualize themselves alongside newer manifestations, ultimately building toward The Box—a world where the governing brand and its worshippers become indistinguishable from the product itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/helloart.com\/fr\/collections\/feris.oembed","provider":"helloart","version":"1.0","type":"link"}