Sepulchre
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01/03/2015
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The work in Sepulchre (2015) came from my research into female ritual practices and my fascination with specific mythological and historical narratives. These themes were explored during a month-long Summer Residency at Boxcopy Contemporary Artspace. Of particular note were the chronicles and rituals from the terrain around the Adriatic Sea, including Greece and Italy. During the residency, I kept referring to specific mythological texts, which had women as the main protagonists. I kept returning to female characters whose representation was framed by aspects of their sexuality. When looking at these women together, they seemed to sit within a greater narrative archetype, a communal dialogue of shared characteristics, repetitious narrative components and mutual landscapes. Sepulchre became my attempt to develop a conversation between these women by drawing from their commonality, and reimagining these collective elements into sculptural objects and moving images. The video explores an apotropaic gesture, a Baubo-style ‘flashing’. A glass star chart rests on white cliffs, speaking to the narrative of Andromeda and her position as both a celestial and terrene landscape. Another object, a wall mounted copper light burst, pays homage to the framing device used by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa. By reconciling these dialogues, I was interested in exploring expanded portrayals of female sexuality and depictions of subversive and authorial femininity, developed through connotations with mysticism, ritual practice and women’s knowledge. |
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http://eprints.qut.edu.au/92799/1/ABooth_SEP2015_2.jpg http://eprints.qut.edu.au/92799/2/ABooth_SEP2015_4.jpg http://eprints.qut.edu.au/92799/3/ABooth_SEP2015_1.jpg http://eprints.qut.edu.au/92799/4/ABooth_SEP2015_5.jpg http://eprints.qut.edu.au/92799/5/ABooth_SEP2015_3.jpg http://eprints.qut.edu.au/92799/6/ABooth_SEP2015_6.jpg http://boxcopy.org/ Booth, Anastasia Gaea (2015) Sepulchre. [Visual Artwork] |
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Copyright 2015 Anastasia Booth |
Fonte |
Creative Industries Faculty; School of Media, Entertainment & Creative Arts |
Palavras-Chave | #190500 VISUAL ARTS AND CRAFTS #190502 Fine Arts (incl. Sculpture and Painting) #190503 Lens-based Practice #190504 Performance and Installation Art #Feminism #Female Sexuality #Performance #Mythology #Contemporary art #Contemporary Sculpture #Video |
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Creative Work |