Juliana Irene Smith: Sex in the City 2

The image was taken while the artist was an art student in New York City. They reprinted it during a residency in Norway with the Nordic Analog Network. Currently, the artist is beginning to explore the performance of masculinity as a fatherless child.

About the artist
Juliana Irene Smith (b. 1977 San Francisco, lives in Helsinki, Finland) is a half Iranian, half Californian artist who works with generational trauma through material memory, photography, text and installation. Prior to moving permanently to Finland in 2017, she lived in Cape Town with her artists-run non-profit ALMA MARTHA. She has a BFA in Photography from Parsons School of Design in New York and a Masters in Public Art from the University of Applied Arts and Sciences in Lucerne, Switzerland.