4 Minutes to leave
Mixed media assemblage
Installation: 130 cm x 70 cm x 80 cm
Artist’s Statement
Mobile Living Conditions is a small series of assemblages (created in 2024) that reference precarious home environments. I source materials from recycling yards and collect used objects, which I deliberately tear and take apart to reconstruct and defamiliarise them into new entities. Through stitching, tying and securing these fragments, I am creating teetering structures that engage with my sense of home as temporary. The township where I once lived has become a catalyst for how I work with found objects. I allow my found object assemblages to remain “on the move” as they constantly change in form and meaning, hence they in themselves become conceptually and visually mobile.
The medium of assemblage has a temporary, ever-changing and fragile nature, thus bearing testament to temporary and inconsistent living conditions. This allows me to play irrationally with combinations of hard objects tied with soft materials that could tear at any moment. These nonsensical and ever-changing aspects reflect how both functional and dysfunctional, unstable or mobile living conditions can be.
The nonsensical aspects are further highlighted by fragile elements in combination with the defamiliarised mundane objects and bright colours. All these combinations render my assemblages quirky. Therefore, my assemblages become characterisations of how people deal with their precarious living circumstances, as the quirky combinations add humorous and human elements to the found objects. I use these visual tools to unsettle viewers in order to challenge their own associations with mundane objects as a means of seeing and interpreting makeshift living circumstances in a different way.
Gallery
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