The momentary triumph of aggression over tenderness / 2019
Ten i-phone photographic prints & single-channel soundtrack (10:46 min loop) with rocking chair.
Rm Gallery, Auckland
In The momentary triumph of aggression over tenderness, sound and image is brought together to recall the interior world of motherhood as it is felt. In this deeply subjective practice of psychodrama and catharsis, the documentation of the domestic tableau works to frame a soundscape that is a raw re-enactment of a mother’s mind produced by the deep listening and self-excavation of parenting by connection.
This work of disclosure investigates the ambiguity between memory and experience, reality and re-enactment. It questions the mythologies of women’s magazines and influencer feeds, and the art-historical representation of the mother, in an emotional self-portrait of the agony and the ecstasy. Here, the mother is both contemporary archetype and lived contradiction.
Listen. 10:46 second loop in stereo (use headphones for optimum experience).
Toilet
Hole
Bed
Flower
Shower
Bush
Bowl
Hoop
Placenta
Bruise
Installation view (in the foreground is the work Awaiting Paradise, by Bronte Perry)
Installation view (in the foreground is the work Awaiting Paradise, by Bronte Perry)
Installation view (in the foreground is the work Awaiting Paradise, by Bronte Perry)