Un-Home-Like

Video Documentation of exhibition "Un-Home-Like" On view at The Sculpture Center in Cleveland April 23- May 28, 2010 Show statement... The cabinet is a collector of mementos. In my installation, the cabinet is also a survival raft. By mixing metaphors of the home, the flood, and the subconscious, I am exploring how suppressed memories of traumatic experiences can adversely affect behaviors, actions, and relationships within the home. In referencing Delacroix’s “Barque of Dante and Virgil”, I am exploring the difficulty one faces in making the arduous journey of recovery from trauma. I am also raising questions regarding a person’s ability to remain integrated in their individuality when the residue of suppressed fears and anxieties floods the psyche. The element of fantasy in the scene gives concrete expression to subjective experiences of the psyche. Here past and present, dream and reality, conscious and unconscious, familiar and unfamiliar, exist together, and create an uncanny (un-home-like) environment. This is meant to evoke the manner in which past traumatic events are very much part of the present through memory and, though hidden from those around us, are made concrete in the world again through the conduct of the person experiencing them.

Channel: Vimeo Video Length: 3m 56s Date Found: Wed, Apr 27 2011 2:11 PM Category: Home Video Date Produced: Sun, Apr 18 2010 9:50 AM View Count: 0