What am I going to do with a pink room?

 

In collaboration with Corner, I made seven pieces for the Pink Room.

When I first contacted Corner to ask whether they were interested in showing my work, I realised that the Pink Room would be a challenge. The room offered space for seven pieces in A4. I usually work on a much larger scale… A4. Seven of them.

What to do?

I decided to work around it, and after thinking about it for a long time, I started to listen to what my main emotion was at that time: anger.

 

My practice is deeply linked to the way I feel. It has always been a way to express things that, most of the time, I don’t even realise are there.

How I made this piece is simple: I drew on A1, tore the drawing into smaller parts, picked them up, and rearranged them.

It used to be one; now there are seven.

 

It made me think about the need to tear things apart sometimes, to sit with all those pieces, to start again. You start again knowing things are not going to look the way they were; it will be something else. And yet, the link to the whole is still there.

It made me think about an emotion that is usually labelled as negative in women and tends to be repressed, but that is fundamental for making changes, moving on, and building new worlds.

 

Thanks to the people who stay beside me when I have to tear things apart.