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Cuntemporary Artists Presents is a feminist artist collective and digital platform. We are keen on seeing women and female-identifying artists thrive in the Cryptocurrency and NFT markets and new creative platforms, and aim to shift the current paradigm towards a feminist future.
It was founded in collaboration by Joanne Leah and Marne Lucas aka CuntemporaryArtist, both New York artists make work that celebrates the aesthetic of the body within unique landscapes. They are interested in society’s reactions to beauty, bodily functions, sexuality, and cultural ideas about re-interpretations of the body. They identify as feminists in life and art; their photographic and video work is bold and opposite, in Leah’s use of vivid color and textures, and Lucas’ use of black & white thermal infrared video. “A mating of opposites is often central to great art.” Leah suggests that the images themselves become proof of a vulnerable act, between skin and viscera, exhibitionist and voyeur, public and private. Lucas posits that the darkness of humanity and our fear of the unknown is ever present as recent cultural shifts bring attention to our messy grappling with a dying patriarchy and the sinister prevalence of military and surveillance culture.
Cuntemporary Artists Presents will be launching more artist collaborators in the near future.
LUCAS + SACHS
2021 New Feminist Token Project is an NFT collaboration by artists Marne Lucas and Stephanie Sachs. Launching in May 2021.
LEAH + LUCAS Exhibitions
2020 - Palimpsesto, curated by Maria Manuela Lopez, Municipal Museum of Penafiel, Portugal. Wet Passenger: An Amniotic Utopia' Photography and 2-channel video.
2019 - #18 ART, ‘OF THE ADMIRABLE ORDER OF THINGS: art, emotion and technology’, International Meeting on Art and Technology #ART, exhibition, Lisbon, Portugal. Photography and 2-channel video.
2018 – Synthetic Zero, Curated by Mitsu Hadeishi, BronxArtSpace, New York. Photography.