The Same Sheets You Clean
Collecting and accumulating an otherwise unnoticed, dry and visceral landscape of abject cast-offs. Only when it is worn and brushed off skin is it acknowledged. Disgust grown through volume, the orchestrated cast-off’s fall and rest on murmurings of their natural habitats. A constant removal of where we see fit, whilst residue resides inevitably.
The Same Sheets You Clean explores fragmented body politics in relation to perceived spaces of comfort and overlooked abjection; the space between subject and object. Examining how disjointed or incomplete representations of the body reflect societal tensions around control and abject perception. Explored through slight disruptions of non-threatening spaces that leak a soft, lived-in comfort, this project allows for new spaces in which to view the fragmented body. Dispersed delicately throughout the installation, wrapping and encasing the works in the space, is the dust and debris of our daily encounters, moulded, accumulated and gathered into lines of text as poetic responses to their existence. A space divided and enveloped by hanging fabric, reminiscent of bedsheets hung out to dry. Through this lens The Same Sheets You Clean places importance on the unseen remnants of daily life as quiet, persistent records of abject fringing and intimacy. Surfaces coated then removed, residue inevitable.
