'staged (family crowd)' presents a reimagined portrait of fluid and expanding family. The ongoing project questions the vulnerable boundaries of intimate, private and political positions. It explores expanded notions of being a body within the world and in relation to others.

 

The installation is made up of sculptural assemblages crafted from second-hand clothes, domestic debris, construction materials and portraits. The familiar shapes of t-shirts, pallet frames, socks, chairs, and pipes are interspersed with glimpses of faces, hands and feet. The materials become imbued with their own agency, and transform into sculptural bodies and boundaries that proliferate in the gallery space. Some sculptures echo bodies as they crawl across the ground, reach out and hold hands, whilst others become screens and barriers that bodies are staged upon. They congregate in a familial crowd, reformulating the gallery into a porous space where boundaries blur and bodies shed their legibility.

 

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