Honouring the very first exhibition, PAPER of Curatorial+Co. ten years later with PAGES – a decade-long narrative told through material.
My contribution to the exhibition consisted of an immersive installation, perspex boxed layered cut paper and jesmonite cast sculptures of torn cardboard packaging from the remnant of boxes that contained nostalgic momentos of family members that, finally, I have let go.
With a nod to packing, moving, and the protection of precious things, I sought to use everyday items - honeycomb paper, bulldog clips, staples, cat litter— not only for their humble practical associations, but also for their utilitarian aesthetic.
These often-overlooked materials carry with them the residue of transit, fragility, and containment. Paper that cushions, clips that hold order, litter that absorbs and hides. Together they formed a veil, obscuring a view with its stretched and pulled fissures, suggesting to me corrupted maps glimpsed through leafy canopies. Fragile spaces fractured but connected emerged revealing the tension between protection and revelation more like a skin barrier, porous and impermanent, recalling the body with its scars,membranes and fragile architecture, memories of fragmented family histories told in pieces, stained by rupture in the folds of memory.