MA Photography, Royal College of Art
The body and its unorthodox actions act as a vent to release understandings and happenings within the world seeking to ask for one to examine our cultural identity, that is whatever enables us to survive morally and physically.
Through the use of performance, installation, video and photography I externalise internal thoughts through the use of the body and its behaviour. The inscription of spoken language itself (which is first conceived by memory), to memory and then back again, demonstrates the limitation spoken language has on attempting to translate memory into a form of communication that can be received the same way as it has been produced. One can never access another’s mental images no matter how well described.
The use of repetition throughout my work is a way of undoing the flow of time. It compels one to readdress what has gone before, but also through its reiteration, approach it in its constant presence.
Reducing ready-made memories to simplistic, surreal, maybe even absurd actions assist in contextualising my approach to gender systems, spatial consciousness, and body behaviours.
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