Fractured Narratives
2018
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Fractured Narratives is a body of work I made for the collaborative exhibition ‘Something to Remember’ with Alexis Neal. Our exhibition referenced Louise Bourgeois’s artist books ‘Nothing to Remember’ and ‘Ode to Forgetfulness’. In these books, made late in her career, she conveys a sense of fleetingness, reworking textiles from her personal archive and forms from her long history of art practice.
Through iterative processes, working with textiles, drawing, printmaking, knotting, and text, my series explores the overlapping themes of aging, voice and refiguring as a way of remembering what to forget. My works are layered and fragmented. In the screenprints, vibrant, saccharine palettes and closely cropped scans of straps, ribbons, and mesh are fractured by drawing of rhytides (evidence of aging skin). Silver foil text works point towards subtext as a way of attending to what's not said. Blind embossments, made through processes of inversion and removal, suggest the possibility of breaking with unchosen narratives. The colours and lines of these works are echoed in an artist book digitally printed on translucent silk organza, in which layers accumulate, form into images and dissolve as pages are turned. The book is presented in a space delineated by a knotted rope, hung to suggest the outline of a room or house.
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The exhibition 'Something to Remember' was shown at Gus Fisher Gallery (2018) and The Suter Gallery (2019).
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