WUNDERKAMMERN OF OBJECTIFIED SIGNIFICANCE – WOMAN CLAIMS THAT A LEFT FOOT BOOT IS HER DAUGHTER AND HER HUSBAND IS A DIRTY COUCH
I am a Naarm (Melbourne) based multi-disciplinary artist, who makes installations, video and sculptural works as well as many other weird and wonderful artforms. My practice is deeply conceptual and research-based. My art is often grounded in the core themes of identity, gender and social commentary, where I seek to question and challenge the societal inner workings of everyday life. Overall, I seek to make art that invites and integrates viewers into a distinct experience.
For the 2022 Bachelor of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition I will present a multi-media installation entitled Wunderkammern of objectified significance – Woman claims that a left foot boot is her daughter and her HUSBAND is a dirty couch, that objectifies identity, while exploring how people and culture construct identity.
The push and pull of society dictates how identity is defined and perceived. In this piece, I am curious to explore the order and condition of identity. Initially, to depict the notion of order, I recreate a traditional ‘white cube gallery’. This space voices institutionalisation and orderliness – reflecting the need of regularity in identity. Moving through, and the next space expands into a disorganised, deliberately industrial area illustrating the complexity of identity – the dissonance of conflicting desire for definition. My hope is that this work sparks questions and conversations – after all who are we?
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