Thursday, 19 February 2009


12:53 Noriko san discussed the work in terms of its relation to personal histories. The work was received by the students as a strong piece of work, concentrating their attention of absence rather than presence. There seems to be an implied narrative about what was once there and now is not anymore. There once was a woman there, there once were more clothes. One of the interesting dichotomies that the work enacts, is that the garment is made of the same material of which mothballs are made, mainly naphtalene, which is used for preservation of clothes, but it destroys itself at room temperature. Most of this artist's work, while talking (also) about the preservation of identity and memory, is made of degradable materials and can't be preserved.

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