Previous AA2A Artist

Michelle Forrest-Beckett

Year:
2014-15
Influences:
Doris Salcedo
Email:
mmforrestbeckett@gmail.com
Project summary:

Broadly speaking, my practice is a reflection on the unknown. Creating sculptural forms and installations that transcend everyday reality, I subvert everyday objects and spaces to encourage the viewer to search for a feeling of security in the presence of uncertainty, to take an encounter with the apprehension of things, while allowing for the possibility of bestowing something evocative, enchanting and empowering beyond the promiscuity of our own being.

 

Defining the catalyst for my creative inquiry as being driven to understand and learn to cope with the struggle of recurring depression, I use my practice to face upto my fears and challenge my identity, with the hope of liberating repressed anxieties.

 

Referring to existential melodramas of Ingmar Bergman and Lars von Trier, who’s introspective, misanthropic femmes fatales allude hope and despair, and empowerment and repression, my practice is the working through my ambivalent feelings I feel towards the power of being a natural, wild women and a civilised, moral feminine stereotype.

 

Throught this residency I have developed a sculptural concept titled; ‘A Moratorium: an emotional container which enables the freedom for threshold thinking’, to explore and challenge the paradoxical relationship of psychoanalysing the self, that may allow counter-intuitive tensions inherent between states of resistance and healing to coexist and serve as complimentary, rather than contradictory opposites.

Broadly speaking, my practice is a reflection on the unknown. Creating sculptural forms and installations that transcend everyday reality, I subvert everyday objects and spaces to encourage the viewer to search for a feeling of security in the presence of uncertainty, to take an encounter with the apprehension of things, while allowing for the possibility of bestowing something evocative, enchanting and empowering beyond the promiscuity of our own being.

 

Defining the catalyst for my creative inquiry as being driven to understand and learn to cope with the struggle of recurring depression, I use my practice to face upto my fears and challenge my identity, with the hope of liberating repressed anxieties.

 

Referring to existential melodramas of Ingmar Bergman and Lars von Trier, who’s introspective, misanthropic femmes fatales allude hope and despair, and empowerment and repression, my practice is the working through my ambivalent feelings I feel towards the power of being a natural, wild women and a civilised, moral feminine stereotype.

 

Throught this residency I have developed a sculptural concept titled; ‘A Moratorium: an emotional container which enables the freedom for threshold thinking’, to explore and challenge the paradoxical relationship of psychoanalysing the self, that may allow counter-intuitive tensions inherent between states of resistance and healing to coexist and serve as complimentary, rather than contradictory opposites.

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