Bed, Bath and I’m the Big Spoon
MARFA GALLERY
Abbotsford, Melbourne
8 - 12 June 2019
“I’m the little spoon” was a message I received from a Tinder match. Bed, Bath and I’m the Big Spoon is a body of paintings and an installation responding to a series of intimate experiences I have had over the past year across the United States and Australia.
The exhibition is about love and the shapes it takes, considering the spaces that hold and house our feelings, thoughts, doubts and desires. Shared spaces of intimacy are like second skins. They take on characteristics of their inhabitants and contain collective memories. Personal reflections on the bonds formed between bodies and spaces, from moments often occurring behind closed doors, are rendered for public display. The work gestures towards characteristics of queer and polyamorous bonds, as well as celebrating the networks of support that hold them. Private and public, platonic and romantic, domestic and professional, personal and political: complicated and never simple dichotomies dance in contemporary relationships against a background of social media, dating apps and uncertainty in the future.