Nominated for: Nagoya University of the Arts Prize (group nomination)
My practice concerns the self. I use video, projection and performance to probe ideas surrounding body horror: the fine line between pleasure and repulsion. Questions of identity run through my work.
I draw upon psychoanalysis: oral stage and fetish, dream interpretation and the uncanny, also ideas of abjection from Julia Kristeva’s Powers of Horror. I aim to disrupt distinctions of Self and Other. I am also interested in the role voyeurism plays within cinema and deriving pleasure.
I am influenced by the artists Bruce Nauman, Mona Hatoum and Paul McCarthy; distorting the familiar body into surreal or grotesque forms, confronting uncleanliness and violence.
I penetrate the body using the mouth orifice as a border between inside and outside. I aim to distort and defamiliarize the figure until it is reduced to functions and flesh.