Kika Sroka-Miller

Yeah it was nice, but not how I’d imagined it

25 x 25cm

About:

Currently enrolled on the Turps Painting Programme 2023/24, Kika has been exhibiting work since October 2022. Their work was first shown in the We Are What We See exhibition alongside internationally established artists including Floria Sigismondi, Sandro Kopp and Apollonia Saintclair during Frieze 2022, their work already hangs in private collections in the UK, the Netherlands and Japan. Kika is former Director of the nonfiction publisher Zed Books and Founder of Blue Parlour, a creative network and curatorial project sharing the work of artists exploring sexuality through their practice.

Kika’s artistic practice involves the interrogation of individual and collective fantasies and playing with ideas of pleasure and unease. Fascinated with binary relationships - by how much they feature in our understanding of the world and by how they are used to construct meaning - Kika’s work is an investigation into relationships between fantasy and reality, taboo and the ordinary, pleasure and unease, feeling and knowing, dominance and submission, the verbal and nonverbal, thought and flesh.