The work seeks to explore a tension in the different ways we choose to process an experience; at times coolly colligating information and at others, allowing ourselves to surrender; to be drawn in.
Operating on a plane of ambivalence, it attempts to seduce whilst simultaneously exposing the mechanisms behind that seduction. As projected light stretches out, engulfs and transforms the space, it both soothes and highlights cracks in the façade. Illumination brings an air of theatricality and so the scene is set.
Playing the roles of both lead and support, the construct borrows a filmic language in a bleed between vocabularies; a fluctuating process of concealment and revelation. It stands ready, empty until occupied, waiting for activation.
The work is not so much a fabrication as an assemblage, a bringing together of fragments to create news wholes and incite new conversation; a playground that extends a hand and asks you to step in…