Conceptual photographic work on coercive control, belief, and embodiment Hudson Valley, NY
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Oh, Jen. She makes those unsettling photographs. She’s writing something. She finds peculiar things outside. She sometimes emerges from her cottage at an unreasonable hour wrapped in wool to report that words have occurred.
And the Water Answered, 2013.
One wonders: what was the question?
#FineArtPhotography #ConceptualPhotography #ContemporaryPhotography #PhotographicArt
Yesterday the spiders rejected our spotted lanternfly offerings.
Today they took a dragonfly.
The spiders have taken an innocent. 😱🕸️
I saw a tree wearing a corset.
Here. Carry this one with you. 🕯️
jen-kiaba.kit.com/posts/haun…
Blood in the Water, 2015.
When I made this, I thought it was about the fear of speaking.
Eleven years later, I see the system beneath that silence.
The figure isn’t bound alone.
What taught us to be silent in the first place?
Leaving is often imagined as a physical act: a door crossed, a relationship ended, a community abandoned.
But what happens when the architecture of the system remains?
“Why Didn’t You Just Leave?” — an essay on coercive control, agency, and leaving.
jenkiaba.com/lessons-on-leav…
Who Me? (2018)
Women are taught to be desirable but not desiring, visible but never excessive.
Power sustains itself by turning those contradictions inward—until judgment becomes self-surveillance.
Revisiting older work.
At the End of the World (2013)
What do we do when the maps we’ve trusted no longer lead us home?
Blindly Guided (2019)
Revisiting older work and realizing I’ve been asking the same questions for years: What guides us when certainty disappears?
We spend so much of our lives reaching toward ideas we cannot see—belonging, transcendence, certainty, purpose.
Sometimes the ladder is an invitation. Sometimes it’s a question.
Some exist simply because we need something to reach toward.
Ever Upward (2017)
The moments when we find ourselves standing at the edge of something we cannot unknow—grief, change, truth, loss—and realize there is no way forward except through.
The abyss was never the point.
The choice to look into it was.
Exploring the Abyss (2015)
Some descents change the shape of a life permanently.
Persephone (2019). From Burdens of a White Dress.
There is a moment when something shifts—
before the mind can name it.
When you realize you cannot return
to what you once believed.
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Jen Kiaba retweeted
Thank you @mrjeffu for raising awareness of the Moonie political grift outside of Japan. This time, it’s with former Canadian PM Stephen Harper.
The CBC article is in French. Anyone reading this, please submit a request for an English translation here: cbc.ca/mediacentre/contact
Jen Kiaba retweeted
Someone who tries to resist an #ArrangedMarriage/ #ForcedMarriage often risks ostracism & #HonorViolence, & someone -- esp a woman/girl -- who tries to get divorced after an arranged/forced marriage usually faces serious obstacles. bit.ly/353lTnJ 📷: @Jenkiaba
ALT Photograph of the torso of a woman in a white gown standing over the head of a woman. The head is open with a mess of red strings where a brain would be and the woman is holding a razor blade in one hand and the string from the head in the other, preparing to cut it.
It was an incredible honor working with @noahmichelson to tell my story. Anyone interested in more second gen #unificationchurch #exmoonie stories, check out @FallingOutPod and “Blessed Child” by @Renrobot1 #igotout
Imagine growing up knowing one day you'd get married... to a stranger someone else picked for you
Everything was going to plan for @Jenkiaba... until it wasn't...
Thanks to Jen for writing such a powerful piece for @HuffPost Personal
huffpost.com/entry/arranged-…
Jen Kiaba retweeted
EVERYONE should be educating themselves on how to recognize propaganda and coercive control tactics. Manipulation is out there in all forms, whether it be domestic violence, human trafficking, a cult or extremist group. #educateyourself
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