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"‘ Nekama’ uses a video game interface alongside an RPG ethos in navigating a surreal narrative about the dispersion and proliferation of identity within a networked consumer game space. In addition to ‘ Nekama’ we will screen earlier videos from the artist, which call attention to Brache’s overarching aesthetic. Brache’s video work paired with her collaged imagery, poetry, and websites illustrate her tuned perspective in fetish. Her videos often deal with identity via objectification honed from the sexual parameters of the internet in terms of the representation and commodification of women, and online advertisements. The videos are comparable to mixed media artist Shana Moulton often starring herself or likeness within a surrealist, green screened landscape while Brache engages ideas about the body, gender and sexuality similar to the video work of Pipilotti Rist. Though her work is unique in her technique that echoes the aesthetic of online consumerist culture, integrating the internet – digital, flash, slick, shiny, plastic, HD."Vox Populi