Jill Magid creates conceptual and performance-based works that examine the relationships between individuals and systems of power. Her practice often involves direct engagement with institutions—such as intelligence agencies, law enforcement, or corporate entities—where she navigates bureaucratic structures to reveal their human, legal, and emotional dimensions. Through interventions that combine documentation, writing, and visual media, Magid explores how authority, surveillance, and control shape everyday life. She frequently inserts herself into these systems, using strategies of compliance, intimacy, and negotiation to probe the boundaries between public and private, institutional and personal. Her projects challenge conventional notions of authorship and audience, as the work often emerges from the interplay between her actions and the responses of the institutions she engages. By turning observation, access, and procedural rules into artistic tools, Magid constructs works that make visible the unseen operations of power while inviting viewers to consider their own position within such structures. ...
