Reclaimed foot stool, chair frame, bowl and hat block, silk fibre, resin, citrine crystal

This work was part of my solo show ‘The Palace at 4pm’ at Gertrude Contemporary in 2022. 

From the catalogue:

‘The Palace at 4pm features a series of sculptural works using salvaged pieces of mid-century modern furniture which have been disassembled and amended with inlays and appendages of bronze, resin, silk fibre and plaster. An interior wall of the gallery is painted with a mural reminiscent of 1970s interior design. The installation resembles a deconstructed domestic space in which motifs of nostalgia combine with elements of incongruous materiality. Objects of ‘home’ are transformed, as meanings embedded in the forms and materials converge.

For this solo exhibition, Di Stefano has created new works to consider the confluence of the psychological and affective realities of domestic space. These works explore sites that hold contradictory qualities of intimacy, playfulness and pleasure as well as confusion, disorder and unpredictability. This solo exhibition explores the liminal nature of the domestic realm in which multiplicities of realities — real and imagined — shift and transform to produce states of flux and ambiguity.’