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Jennifer sits in a digitally collaged composition on a fluffy pink sofa with a Macbook on their knees, dressed fully in white with a fake fur white jacket. The ceiling and floor of a classical library building the background are digitally distorted. Different only mobile phones and a TV (all in pink tones) are floating in space, on their screen are images of pop stars who appropriate s3x work aesthetics, namely FKA twigs, Jennifer Lopez and Bella Thorne.

Jennifer Merlyn Scherler’s (they/them) work explores issues of intimacy, identity, gender fluidity, self-image and nostalgia through various (not exclusively digital) formats and media, ranging from video, lecture performance, sound, installation, photography and poetry. Investigating internet cultures and setting a spotlight on cultural behaviours, Scherler reveals how offline structures of cultural dominance are mirrored in the digital sphere.

Scherler reflects on strategies employed by marginalised communities to circumvent the mechanisms of exclusion and claim their presence in digital spaces. Their works integrate a multitude of collective identities and their various strategies of living, grieving and remembering. Incorporating fantasy worlds, pop cultural references, footage and content drawn from the internet, and combining them with personal reflections and textual fragments.

They are a happy member of the collective project memeclassworldwide.