Artist Statment-
Consume is an exhibition of fragmented body parts, plastic, glass containers, and collage. This exhibition questions the divide between the consumer object and the human body. The artworks explore how the human body itself is interpreted in society.
The transparent plastic and glass containers that usually hold objects instead contain bodily forms, which become different types of object to consume, be it physical or psychological.
Through interactions such as looking at a computer screen, touching a friend’s arm or adjusting your clothing, we are continuously consuming information. These artworks explore how the human body is exploited in society in a multitude of ways, be it in conversation, through the gaze, or physical interaction with. The containers frame the body parts becoming sellable items, consumer goods.
The walls of Arcade gallery frame the objects and collage to become forms in a simple shop window display. The exhibition does this to challenge the layers through which we actually see the human body and how it can be displayed as a sellable object.
I am interested in how through the fragmentation of the human body becomes relatable to a range of people, for it is not the body of a specific person but rather the composite forms that we are all made of. The body parts are sections of a conceived whole body. This renders the bodily forms vulnerable yet contained.
