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Notes on Cannibalism, 2025
Oil on Linen
24 x 20
Oil on Linen
Sara Sisun is a painter interested in the relationship between observation, art history, and the circulation of ideas through images. She began painting as a child at the Art Students League of Denver and later earned a BA in Art Practice from Stanford University, an MFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute under a full tuition fellowship, and an MA in Art History from the University of Colorado Boulder. Her work often uses still life to reactivate inherited symbols, placing historical forms in dialogue with contemporary questions.
Notes on Cannibalism takes inspiration from Jérémie Koering’s book Iconophages: A History of Ingesting Images (2024), a study of the ritual, medicinal, and devotional consumption of images across history. In this painting, dark humor and art-historical reference meet in a scene that is both playful and unsettling. Reworking the tradition of vanitas through the idea of ingestion, the painting asks how images enter the body as well as the mind, absorbed not only as things seen, but as vessels for belief, desire, and cultural value.
24 x 20
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Notes on Cannibalism, 2025
Oil on Linen
24 x 20
Sara Sisun is a painter interested in the relationship between observation, art history, and the circulation of ideas through images. She began painting as a child at the Art Students League of Denver and later earned a BA in Art Practice from Stanford University, an MFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute under a full tuition fellowship, and an MA in Art History from the University of Colorado Boulder. Her work often uses still life to reactivate inherited symbols, placing historical forms in dialogue with contemporary questions.
Notes on Cannibalism takes inspiration from Jérémie Koering’s book Iconophages: A History of Ingesting Images (2024), a study of the ritual, medicinal, and devotional consumption of images across history. In this painting, dark humor and art-historical reference meet in a scene that is both playful and unsettling. Reworking the tradition of vanitas through the idea of ingestion, the painting asks how images enter the body as well as the mind, absorbed not only as things seen, but as vessels for belief, desire, and cultural value.
24 x 20
Oil on Linen
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Notes on Cannibalism, 2025
Oil on Linen
24 x 20
Oil on Linen Mounted on Cradled Panel
25 x 30
Sara Sisun is a painter interested in the relationship between observation, art history, and the circulation of ideas through images. She began painting as a child at the Art Students League of Denver and later earned a BA in Art Practice from Stanford University, an MFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute under a full tuition fellowship, and an MA in Art History from the University of Colorado Boulder. Her work often uses still life to reactivate inherited symbols, placing historical forms in dialogue with contemporary questions.
Notes on Cannibalism takes inspiration from Jérémie Koering’s book Iconophages: A History of Ingesting Images (2024), a study of the ritual, medicinal, and devotional consumption of images across history. In this painting, dark humor and art-historical reference meet in a scene that is both playful and unsettling. Reworking the tradition of vanitas through the idea of ingestion, the painting asks how images enter the body as well as the mind, absorbed not only as things seen, but as vessels for belief, desire, and cultural value.