"every.single.one" performance, Southern Theater, Minnesota Fringe Festival, 2024 (Photo: Dave Suggs; Quote in projection: Siddhartha Mukherjee, "The Gene: An Intimate History")
The interdisciplinary practice of Cherie Sampson centers on embodied, site-responsive performances that merge sculpture, video, movement, and mythic or ecological narratives to explore relationships between human existence and the natural world. Drawing from regional histories, cultural traditions, and archetypal symbolism, her work often situates her own body within sculptural or environmental settings to evoke themes of healing and interconnection. Her recent project, every.single.one, extends these concerns into deeply personal terrain, using solo theatrical performance to illuminate individual, familial, and communal experiences with hereditary cancer. The work incorporates documentary imagery, projected environments, expressive movement and narrative text to convey the emotional, physical, and generational dimensions of living with inherited disease and personal agency in facing adversity.
"every.single.one" performance, Southern Theater, Minnesota Fringe Festival, 2024 (Photo: Dave Suggs; Quote in projection: Siddhartha Mukherjee, "The Gene: An Intimate History")