The Dusking Room posits the domestic space as an enigmatic site of contradiction, in which multiplicities of realities coalesce to produce liminal states of flux and ambiguity. The installation takes the form of a fragmented interior, in which elements of the familiar and the unfamiliar engage in a shifting dialogue. Drawing on the legacy of artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Alina Szapocznikow, Meret Oppenheim and Dorothea Tanning, the artist examines the complex conditions of the domestic space and its relationship to the body and memory. Symbols of nostalgia collide with formless matter to propose a reading of the domestic space as uncanny and unstable. This work considers the implications of our intimate spaces as poetic, precarious and fluid containers of narrative and identity.
Photo: Sebastian Kainey
Photo: Sebastian Kainey
Photo: Sebastian Kainey
Photo: Sebastian Kainey
Photo: Sebastian Kainey
Photo: Sebastian Kainey
Photo: Sebastian Kainey
Photo: Sebastian Kainey