The Palace at 4pm features a series of sculptural works in which salvaged pieces of mid-century modern furniture have been disassembled and amended with inlays and appendages of bronze, resin, silk fibre and plaster. The walls of the gallery space are partially painted with a mural reminiscent of 1970’s interior design. The installation resembles a deconstructed domestic space in which an assortment of motifs of nostalgia combine with elements of an incongruous materiality. Objects of ‘home’ are transformed, as meanings embedded in the forms and materials morph and collide.
In this work the artist considers the confluence and conjunction of the psychological and affective realities of the domestic space. These works explore the uncanny quality of domestic sites that can at once embody contradictory qualities of intimacy, playfulness and pleasure…and confusion, disorder and unpredictability. The work explores this liminal nature of the domestic realm in which multiplicities of realities - real and imagined - shift and transform, producing states of flux and ambiguity.
All photos by Christian Capurro