Arwen Duncan

Tuesday 14 July 2009

(4" x 3") Porridge, Chicken Wire, Speakers and Sound Piece Inside
The sins of the father are visited on the children

Posted by A.B.Duncan at 02:26

A.B.Duncan: Edinburgh and London, United Kingdom; Arwen Duncan likes to play with her food. She especially likes to move it off the plate onto the walls and floor. Her current favourites are bread dough, jelly and custard. She will decorate your living room with sustenance. In an attempt to re-assesses our relationship with the routine aspects of life, she uses large quantities of edible substances within a context that refers to elements of the domestic realm. She wishes to focus on both the beautiful and grotesque simplicities of the commonplace, with a focus on a sense of a slow movement and passing of time. She sees the skin as the wall and the walls as a fatty, fleshy mass. This is her take on Bachelard. There is a fascination of both the interior and exterior in her work, the container being contained. She wishes for the viewer to yield to an enforced comfort and a sense of a torpid un/consciousness. She seeks to cajole and smother.