about
Using sculptural and text-based elements, my interdisciplinary practice facilitates Sigmund Freud’s theory that one must re-experience trauma in order to overcome it. My projects confront, order and manage personal traumatic experiences from childhood and adolescence, resulting in works that are both personally and academically charged. Research and experimentation form a key part of the making process.
In psychoanalytical terms, trauma is defined as a, “psychophysical experience” that “exact(s) a toll on the body as well as the mind”[i]. These experiences cannot be organised on a linguistic level, and is instead organised on a somatosensory level[ii], meaning that she is emulating the sensations she feels when referring to traumatic events.
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[i] Rothschild, B. (2000). The Body Remembers. New York: Norton, p. 5.
[ii] Luckhurst, R. (2008). The Trauma Question. London: Routledge.