Final Honours Exhibit 2003:
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A Mixed Media Installation
Based on the structure of a carousel, Captive Carnival featured 7 compartments each surrounding a central core and housing 7 divergent figurative situations.
The work was drawn from a sense of disillusionment and growing confusion at the structures which seem to entrap our lives. The spinning carousel becomes a metaphor for the dizzying inertia of a consumerist world in which we seem to have already sold our souls for something we are not entirely sure we are going to get. Each situation reflects an outer manifestation of a neglected part of the inner self.
My intentions were to allow the work to develop through an intuitive process of layering elements and playing with objects. objects of a previously discarded nature were sourced from junk shops, municipal dumps or people's homes. It was important that all materials were easily accessible to create an immediate and ad hoc quality.
Drawing from the concerns of photomontage, I dealt with each compartment pictorially, according to the formal principals of line, perspective, composition, colour and texture. Objects became elements of collage. Reference to photomontage was further explored through the addition of two dimensional magazine cut outs, allowing me to reference ideas outside of those contained within each object.
The work has a staged and theatrical quality, yet is unnerving in its stillness. the only movement occurs with the viewer's own shifting perspective. The work, thereby, becomes a visual matrix of object, form and figure, expressing a tension between inner and outer, meaning and meaningless and the confusion that ensues.
Claire Homewood
2003
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