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

Toilet

Hole

Hole

Bed

Bed

Flower

Flower

Shower

Shower

Bush

Bush

Bowl

Bowl

Hoop

Hoop

Placenta

Placenta

Bruise

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)

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)

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