In 2013, she performed in a short film, American Reflexxx, shot by her girlfriend Alli Coates.[4] It shows Pierce, in a short dress and a mirror-finish mask, moving through the streets of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, where she is derided and then attacked.[5][6][7][8] It was shown at "Bushwick Gone Basel", an event in a bar in Miami Beach during Art Basel Miami in 2013,[9] and at the BHFQU Brucennial in 2014.[10] It has been watched more than 1.7 million times on YouTube.[11]
Rhizome called it "a brave work that construes many related topics within current cyberfeminist discourses",[12] while Art F City said it was "terrifying, surreal—and true."[9] Her work often includes pink and purple neon lights and "spans photography, performance, and installation."[13]
Pierce's work is feminist and she identifies as one, but also states she has "been thinking about the binary aspects of the term 'feminist' and how we can move past gendered terms in general."[14]
Pierce's work has also been shown at the Castor Gallery's SATELLITE Art Show (2016),[15] the Nathalie Halgand Galerie in Vienna (2017),[16] and the Annka Kultys Gallery in London (2018 & 2019).[17] In 2020, Pierce's work was one of 35 artists included in "Time for Outrage!" at the Kunstpalast Düsseldorf.[18]
Notes
^"The Eyeslicer Presents". The Museum of Modern Art. 17 February 2019. Archived from the original on 17 May 2022. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
^Fraschini, Gaia (16 October 2015). "What's Real ? Signe Pierce". Vogue Italia (in Italian). Archived from the original on 23 June 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
^Avedisian, Alexis Anais (19 August 2015). "Interview: American Reflexxx". Rhizome. Archived from the original on 24 October 2020. Retrieved 28 November 2022.