Aug 13, 2017 | Art, Artworks, Exhibitions, Featured, Video
Ladies Lounge (2017) is an installation and ongoing project that explores women’s bodies as sites of trauma for the purpose of entertainment in genre films. The series is in commemoration of those women “slain in battle” and is presented as a series of tapestries with accompanying video installation. Each image is the aftermath of an act of violence, with each victim female. By distilling each act down into static stitched frames the images are confused and abstracted. While violence against women is often fetishised on screen, it is worth noting that genre films (particularly Horror) have often been responsible for placing women in unconventional roles, way ahead of mainstream film. The time consuming method reflects the sycophantic execution of these scenes while pulling into question the slippery dichotomy of “women’s work” and the roles we play as victims, perpetrators and heroes. Ladies...
