Your dreams don't remember you anymore

Artist: | Medium: Fibreglass, Enamel Paint | Size: 70 x 50 x 55 | Date completed: 2011

Artist Statement

I am an emerging artist, and my arts practice is in contemporary 3D figurative work. I am making ceramic baby forms to create a psychological space for self-reflection. The babies are used as a function of accessing space for externalising my hidden unconscious memories. They embody memories of situation in which I have felt extreme self conciousness. The work attempts to build a dialogue between my identity and forms of influence that construct identity.

My work, Your dreams don't remember you anymore, is a conflation of a psychotic fantasy that tortures the figure of infancy combined with symbols of power, money, material success and excess, allusions to capital, materialism and absurdity. However, the impression of the work is its iconic nod to low brow black humour. It is this, a kind of playful psychosis, that seems to lead to a Zizekian nightmarish future of an absurd low brow distraction from the true horror, our own subjectivity; that is, the narcissistic failure to recognise the reflection in the mirror as not ourselves, but as just an image of ourselves.