Wren Perdue

BIO

Wren Perdue is a Memphis-based visual artist with a BFA in Studio Arts from the University of Memphis. Driven by curiosity and a distortion of girlhood iconography, Perdue works across various mediums, including video, sculpture, and printmaking, to create works that satisfy her impulses and complicate her desires.

STATEMENT

No one knew I needed glasses, at a pretty severe level, until I was in kindergarten. So there was about three or so years of my sentience where I just had to fill in some parts of visual life. I remember thinking how amazing it was that people would sit at their loved ones' gravestones, en mass, every day to mourn. When really it was just rows of multicolored faux flowers at a distance. I was pretty inquisitive, but I don't remember ever asking for confirmation on this at the time. It was just what made sense to me, never having been inside a cemetery before.

That little part of my brain still exists. So eager to fill in the blanks of my curiosity with the most perfect answer, even if it only glimmers for a nanosecond. Even if the perfect answer is something I cannot even fathom or picture, just a feeling. My work collapses the stages of my life — addressing the world through every version of me. Sculpture, video, and printmaking act as cathartic gestures that seek to exist in the nanosecond of glimmer. Form, texture, and sound inform the genesis of my process — lending imagery to impulse, instinct, and pleasure.