Post assembly - agentic powers of both material assemblages, and viewers, are imbricated in a state on perpetual becoming. This activates the site as as a space of action, where an emotive embodied response suspends time.
I want the work to hold you in that intensity. That moment of perpetration and yield. So when you feel it emotionally, there’s a sense of empathy. There’s a sense of a body. Through the material body, your body too is implicated in the experience because you know what it is like to be both powerful and vulnerable Hard and Soft. My practice investigates productive powers between psychological and materially opposed gestures of control and release/power and agency. The material assemblages hold allegorical potential, situating the works as active conduits for the body. Through balanced expressions of perpetration and yield, antithetical forces negotiate their impact on one another. Materials act as the primary point of departure in my practice; I would like to acknowledge the First Nations people on the lands from which I source them. The gravity of which is felt when I mix sand into a cement, mix scoria to invest, weld steel, pour latex and cast aluminium. All are mined from unceded indigenous land. I would like to pay respect to elders past, present and emerging. |