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Composite Tension
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Artist Parent Index
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<a href="http://www.oliviadefleuriot.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">oliviadefleuriot.com</a>
Topic
maternal body
domestic labor
mother/child intersubjectivity
Medium
fabric
yarn
thread
foam
wire
metal
ink
paper
Artist Statement
As an artist and mother, I interweave the performative gestures of motherhood in my soft sculptural forms, consisting of fabric, yarn, and thread. My recent work, presented in the four-part installation, "Composite Tension" ("Corpus", "Slew", "Cleave" and "Tensile"), is informed by a personal archive, "Documentation Series: Year Off" (2018), where I took videos of my maternal body in relation to my child. I re-watched the videos each day and wrote my observations in two notebooks. The notebooks recorded my anxieties of being a good mother; separation, and the weaning process. I shredded and incorporated the handwritten pages into the sculpture "Corpus". The pregnant body is a vessel for containment, yet it exudes and spills out. The messiness extends to how the pregnant/maternal body exists as a part of another and is undefinable within patriarchal-capitalistic society. Through the discourse of craftivism, I investigate the tensioned relationship between motherhood and the artworld. The sculptures in "Composite Tension" are more than just undefinable messy bodies—they are messy bodies with the potential to speak about care within an institution. The softness, labour, and time speak to care. As I place them in the gallery space they remain as caring objects; as soft undefinable bodies. They are messy bodies; they are political bodies.
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British Columbia
Canada
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Olivia de Fleuriot Perry
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Olivia de Fleuriot Perry
and paper
domestic labour
fabric
foam
ink
maternal body
metal
mother/child intersubjectivity
thread
wire
yarn