Hannya and Onna (the demoness and the young woman) by Stephanie Powell | 2022/23 BRIClab Video Art

Stephanie Powell’s short film Hannya and Onna (the demoness and the young woman) combines childhood photos and slow to static imagery that contemplates the impact family cultural objects have on femininity. The objects are Noh theater masks that are traditionally worn by men to perform female roles, and the artist incorporates these masks in their work as a conduit to question the authoring of gender.
Stephanie Powell’s work looks critically at the power dynamics around the Asian-American female body. Being half Japanese and half White American, she is interested in the nomadic movement within mixed-race bodies which has influenced their research in dance, performance and somatic movement therapy. Powell received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2001) and has exhibited at Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA; Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY; Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand; Sgorbati Projects, NYC, NY; and Mallorca Landings, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. She has received grants from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, Jerome Foundation, and the Illinois Arts Council. She received residencies through apexart, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Creative Capital’s Aljira Emerge, Briclab’s Video Art Program and in the Fall 2023 with the LMCC on Governors Island, NYC.
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wow. stunning.