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The exhibition will be shown as part of the Harris' Stairway exhibitions program and will run from the 18th April 2012 - 7th July 2012. Identity Crisis will be made up of three of my photographic projects 'Desserts' (2011-12), 'Ego Entertainment' (2012) and 'Ashley House' (2008).
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| 'Tart', Desserts (2011) |
Desserts is a series that explores both women’s
relationship with food and societies expectations for her ideal appearance.
Whilst the lustrous photographic surface and subtly lit food in each image
deliberately seek to allure the audience (mirroring media portrayals of
femininity), the ‘beauty signifiers’ (hair, false nails etc.) recognised
amongst the usually appealing puddings horrifically contaminate the desserts in
quickly eliminating any appeal.
The unpleasant images seek to illustrate the uncomfortable interior reality of a more honest female identity than media imagery typically represents, whilst exposing the manufactured signifiers of her exterior construction.
For more images from the series, have a look at my website.
The unpleasant images seek to illustrate the uncomfortable interior reality of a more honest female identity than media imagery typically represents, whilst exposing the manufactured signifiers of her exterior construction.
For more images from the series, have a look at my website.
| 'Intimacy vs. Isolation (Spin the Bottle)', Ego Entertainment (2012) |
“A
game [..] enriches the process of definition of one’s own identity, enabling
the individual to reinterpret his/her own experience in the new narrative
configurations of that game.” – Rosa Gallelli
Ego Entertainment is a photographic project that uses children’s games to investigate the subject of identity construction in western culture. The psychoanalyst Erik Erikson theorised his understanding of this as the 8 stages of psychosocial development, which Ego Entertainment uses as a starting point. He believed that within each stage, an individual must accept the two conflicting extremes before gaining a ‘virtue’ (favourable outcome) and constituting a stable identity.
Through games of luck, pretend and narrative, images from the series work as a vehicle to illustrate the various stages of an individual’s determination in their search for ego identity. As I currently reside within the ‘Intimacy vs. Isolation’ category, I have made an artistic decision to not yet produce stages 7 and 8.
For more images from the series, have a look at my website.
Ego Entertainment is a photographic project that uses children’s games to investigate the subject of identity construction in western culture. The psychoanalyst Erik Erikson theorised his understanding of this as the 8 stages of psychosocial development, which Ego Entertainment uses as a starting point. He believed that within each stage, an individual must accept the two conflicting extremes before gaining a ‘virtue’ (favourable outcome) and constituting a stable identity.
Through games of luck, pretend and narrative, images from the series work as a vehicle to illustrate the various stages of an individual’s determination in their search for ego identity. As I currently reside within the ‘Intimacy vs. Isolation’ category, I have made an artistic decision to not yet produce stages 7 and 8.
For more images from the series, have a look at my website.
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| 'Wallpaper' & 'Swimming Pool', Ashley House (2008) |
“Family photography may both conceal and reveal,
but its investigation can never end with the closed circle it appears to
represent” - Patricia Holland
Ashley House is my Grandparents’ family home. The large house resides in Dorset and its land fills approximately 2.5 acres. Evidence of my Grandparents’ daily routine, my father’s childhood and my experience as a visitor is present in the photographs; therefore the series results as an autobiographical representation of three generations.
For more images from the series, have a look at my website.
Ashley House is my Grandparents’ family home. The large house resides in Dorset and its land fills approximately 2.5 acres. Evidence of my Grandparents’ daily routine, my father’s childhood and my experience as a visitor is present in the photographs; therefore the series results as an autobiographical representation of three generations.
For more images from the series, have a look at my website.
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