2023, March 29th – April 28th
THE SHIP WHO SANG
Disappearing and appearing, destroying and creating—these are the conditions that are present within my work and are what I am conscious of when making my art.
In 〈I am in You〉 I make flaming water appear in the image by burning the part of a seaside photograph that depicts water. 〈Lacrymatory〉: On the faint glaze of a tear catcher jar, the burned photographs of many people. In 〈blue on blue〉 the two faces of the ceramic artist and the photographer replace the face of a person from an archival photograph. Transferred over and over again on ceramics the resulting distortion to the image creates a tear-like blue flow. 〈The Ship Who Sang〉 is a three-dimensional work that creates temporary and organic forms in an exhibition space by connecting the stars pictured in the photograph through countless folds.
The title The Ship Who Sang is taken from an Anne McCaffrey science fiction novel. It’s a story of a woman who was born as a human but now has the body of a spaceship and lives as a cyborg. Able to fly through space and sing in any range with just her thoughts, she refuses the chance to be given a human body again.
We spend a lot of time online and are already living in a time of transition where our bodies are beginning to disappear from our consciousness. Perhaps, in my work, I am merely rehearsing in order to imagine how to turn loss into a blessing. /Y.T