RE-MAKING (2024)

RE-MAKING is a multi-media installation performance that seeks to materially explore the processes through which humans form their subjectivity in the presence of others. The performative aspect of the piece consists of the artist (myself) slowly deconstructing a clay sculpture made to resemble me, using a hammer and a basin of water. The installation component involves the use of six polaroid cameras lining the delineated portion of space occupied by the artist. In order to materially simulate and capture the act of “witnessing” involved in subject formation, the audience is asked to move freely about the space and click the buttons of the polaroids throughout the duration of the exhibition. By the end of the performance, the ground is littered with photographic representations of being-seen-through-another’s-eyes during a hyper-real and embodied interpretation of “forming the self” – or in this case, an attempt to de-form in order to re-form.