Michelle Lee Johnson
[she/they] (b. 1996, Los Angeles, CA, USA) is an American visual artist
living and practicing in London, UK. They are currently pursuing an MFA
at Goldsmiths, University of London.
I work across sculpture, moving image, sound, and installation. I am interested in ghosts, scraps, and disintegration — attending to these residues becomes my process to address material subjectivity.
Often with a humorous, kitsch, or absurb tone, my work explores the dialectic generated within unresolved contradictions experienced between polarities: belonging and alienation; care and neglect; queerness and conformity; autonomy and control; mundane and absurd; desire and disgust. My practice engages with themes of body through a queer lens and interrogates systems of precarity.