Orifice
2021-2023
Immersive installation
4.5 x 10 x 3 m
Wallpaper, thread, lamps
In the immersive installation ‘Orifice’ wallpaper is explored as medium and bodily agent. Through the motion of sewing wallpaper by hand an eerie architecture is constructed in which stitches come to resemble patched skin. Informed by gothic horror fiction and genre aesthetics this spatial work disintegrates the domestic as it is suspended between comfort and horror. The corridor enacts a liminal bodily orifice that is haunted by the gothic literature of Charlotte Perkins Gilman 'The Yellow Wallpaper' which isolates wallpaper as agent of chaos and embodies a retrieval of power.
Monochromatic texture, ominous patterns and the architectural uncanny merge in a fascination for the agency of the objects surrounding us in a spatial experience. Wallpaper is approached as a body, a dynamic and complex organism. Wallpaper is a dissembler; a medium that openly misleads by transforming and reconstructing spaces. This leathery skin that hides the bones and skeletal of rooms turns from a static surface into an ominous agent. The first iteration of this piece was presented during my residency at DOOR Foundation in 2021 and the second iteration at the graduation show of the Royal Academy of Arts.
