Monday, 19 July 2010
Second Year Exhibition!
Here's some pic's of my work this year!
‘Die Frauen (The Women)’ is built up of two layers of woven sections, made of natural fibres and cloth, which both hold the ability to capture secrets, channel human communication and expose fragility. The enlarged outer layer, with its dominating presence, acts as protection; working in a similar way to how we can use clothing to mask what’s inside. Enclosed inside is the inner layer, shrunken down to size, and representational of the inner human being. This space holds the secrets and the pain.
I’ve created this work to be interactive, and I welcome the audience to go into the space within the inner layer and reflect on what the women went through.
Die Frauen (The Women)
‘Die Frauen (The Women)’ symbolizes and exposes the treatment and confessions of German women during the Second World War. I have captured personal memories and revealed shocking stories through the use of textile based practices, conveying the issues of sexual assault which took place over the war time period, such as rape.
“Shut your eyes, clench your teeth, don’t utter a sound. Only when the underwear is ripped apart with a tearing sound, the teeth grind involuntary. The last underwear.
I feel the fingers at my mouth, smell the reek of horses and tobacco. I open my eyes. Adroitly the fingers force my jaws apart. Eye looks into eye. Then the man above me slowly lets his spittle dribble into my mouth...
Paralysis. Not disgust, just utter coldness. The spine seems frozen, icy dizziness encircles the back of the head. I find myself gliding and sinking deep down through the pillows, through the floor...”
Diary extract from anonymous victim
I have woven a representational body-like environment, using a traditional female skill, which has been used for over centuries, bonding together women. The skills of weaving have enabled me to bind together the memories, represent the body’s outer woven-like structure and reflect on human experience.
‘Die Frauen (The Women)’ is built up of two layers of woven sections, made of natural fibres and cloth, which both hold the ability to capture secrets, channel human communication and expose fragility. The enlarged outer layer, with its dominating presence, acts as protection; working in a similar way to how we can use clothing to mask what’s inside. Enclosed inside is the inner layer, shrunken down to size, and representational of the inner human being. This space holds the secrets and the pain.
I’ve created this work to be interactive, and I welcome the audience to go into the space within the inner layer and reflect on what the women went through.
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