Exhibition floor talk | Through Grinding Teeth
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Publication Title
Exhibition floor talk | Through Grinding Teeth
Publisher
Edith Cowan University
School
School of Arts and Humanities; ECU Galleries
Description
Exhibition Statement | Nina Raper is an emerging artist based in Boorloo (Perth). She completed her BFA in 2021 at Curtin University. Raper’s practice concerns unpacking the multifaceted nature of misogyny in our digital age. She interrogates the archetypes of woman and girlhood demonstrated through popular culture and the western art cannon that inform her understanding her own identity. Her heavy process based and solely autobiographical practice takes the form of textiles, video, performance and sculpture.
Artist Bio | Through Grinding Teeth is an autobiographical body of work that describes the bodily experiences of reliving trauma and the role of dreaming in the repairing of memory. The imagined and real are stitched, bound and knotted into liminal compositions creating tactile connection for thoughts. Raper recounts the frustration and sensations of attempting to retrieve missing fragments of memory and deciphering dreams that have the same vividity of memories. The immense dissociation that occurs when piecing together events that leave us with an unstable sense of reality. These thoughts blur the lines between dream and conscious memory and are further manipulated throughout time and their continuous internal screenings. Through exploring the bodily sensations in the recounting of dreams and memories, Raper imagines a new space for these thoughts to sit in. A space that accepts these “memories” as they are, straying from deciphering their origins as fact or fiction and instead acknowledges their emotional weight.
Additional Information
Exhibition dates: 17 May–15 June 2023 | Artist floor talk: 12:30–1:30pm, Wednesday 24 May 2023