Body on Display II

Gaffa Gallery, Sydney

August 2019

My artwork stems from a roller coaster of all different kinds of emotions that originated when I went through a traumatic experience of sexual abuse as a child.

The work is a series of clothes dipped in clay slip, varying in different sizes, depicting cloths as an armour for my body that I feel is on display all the time. Working with clay is a therapeutic process for me because I get the opportunity to involve myself in the process, thus enabling me to mould the material in any way I want and leaving the natural folds depicting imperfections in my everyday life. The display of the artwork is kept as close to the natural process of someone taking their clothes off and either hanging them or leaving them on the floor. The feeling of presence of the body in those clothes is what I want to recreate in my work and my audience to feel when they enter the space.

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