Bo Chang
Canterbury Girls High School
WHERE I AM NOT
Drawing
Charcoal
Dissociation offers a fragile escape from the inevitability of life, a retreat from regrets and undesirable circumstances. It destabilises the foundations of identity, collapsing the coherence of thought, memory and presence into something unfamiliar. My intention in my body of work was to convey the sense of slipping between recognition and self-estrangement, inhabiting one's body while simultaneously becoming a witness to it. Charcoal - easily smudged and erased - is the best medium to represent this precarious experience. I invite the audience to reflect on what it means to lose oneself, and the struggle to regain coherence in a disorienting world.
My artmaking practice has been influenced by the study and interpretation of the following artists: Josh Hernandez, Robert Longo, Agostino Arrivabene.
Marker's Commentary
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