Sticky Surfaces
Kimberley Pace
30
March 2017
30
March
2017
14
April 2017
Gallery 1
Sticky Surfaces fragments and reimagines the corporeal body through resin cast objects, ceramics, textile forms and video. The work in this exhibition reveals the body is not contained by boundaries. We are divided at its margins, seduced and disgusted simultaneously by the porous openings, slits, folds and orifices that interrupt the surface of skin. In Sticky Surfaces, the body is reformed, reduced to parts, and fragmented. The limits of skin are dispelled and corporeality manifests as excessive, pulsating, excreting and growing. The works play on our tendencies towards voyeurism and dissect the fetishised lens cast on the body. Exploration of the everyday and intimate spaces of the body examines the tension between the erotic and the repulsive and unveils desires to touch, fondle and squeeze.
Sticky Surfaces fragments and reimagines the corporeal body through resin cast objects, ceramics, textile forms and video. The work in this exhibition reveals the body is not contained by boundaries. We are divided at its margins, seduced and disgusted simultaneously by the porous openings, slits, folds and orifices that interrupt the surface of skin. In Sticky Surfaces, the body is reformed, reduced to parts, and fragmented. The limits of skin are dispelled and corporeality manifests as excessive, pulsating, excreting and growing. The works play on our tendencies towards voyeurism and dissect the fetishised lens cast on the body. Exploration of the everyday and intimate spaces of the body examines the tension between the erotic and the repulsive and unveils desires to touch, fondle and squeeze.
Kimberley Pace
I am interested in exploring the in-between condition of the corporeal body. What drives my work is the fluidity of the margins of the physical body and the ability for garment to stand in as a rim or extension of the bodily margins. I find these spaces of body to be simultaneously abject and desirable. I want my work to drive you to touch, fondle, and watch while at the same time feel repelled and disgusted. My practice investigates the fluidness of the corporeal body explored through a multidisciplinary studio approach involving garment, object, ceramics body, performance, video and sound. Finding that the body is unfixed, permeable and penetrable, the work explores how the viewer’s gaze contributes to these ambiguous thresholds of the body. How do the un-definable margins of the body simultaneously entice and repel us?Most recently the work aims to produce alternatives to the heteronormative male gaze while examining how this is heavily filtered through a colonial white centric lens. Exploring the homogenised ideologies, values and desires of the body and questioning how we look at and handle the body through subversion of the traditional westernised gendered roles of gaze and the body.