A Little Death - Group Exhibition at Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Sydney

My soft sculptures interpret Little Death as the poetic description of death as substitute for orgasm, a definition that stems from the middle ages. My soft forms suggest sexual associations but at the same time are ambiguous about it. They leave open if something had already happened and it is the aftermath of the orgy, or if nothing has happened due to circumstances of age and decay - the interpretation is open to the viewer. Their meaning is ambivalent, it sits between the pleasure of looking at bodily erotic forms, the laughter about other peoples' failure to perform the sexual act, as simultaneously the reminder on the viewers' own dealing with the condition of aging and death. The reaction to the works is gendered: wilts female viewers might experience laughter about the every-day-embarrassment of flaccid sexual organs, male viewers might feel horror as they have to recognise their own possible failure. The works are humorous and funny, but also a reminder of our own mortality.