The river flowing through my kitchen seen from the corner of my mind's eye

The river flowing through my kitchen seen from the corner of my mind's eye

Becky Nevin-Berger

29 May - 20th June

The river flowing through my kitchen seen from the corner of my mind's eye incorporates previous creative practice-led research examining the aesthetic connection between body, home, and landscape with new observations informed by the experience of “lockdown”.

This body of work is organised as a mock domestic setting that explores how embodied subjectivity is conditioned by the conventional family Australian home. Undertaken as a PhD at the Australian National University Sculpture Workshop the original research sought to identify aesthetic languages that make visible relationships and processes connecting body and world beyond the surface of the skin. The home provided a lens through which to investigate the connection between body and landscape. Homes are built around our body’s processes, they direct attention inward forming a perceptual boundary between our domestic interiors and the outside world. Repetitive and predictable practices maintaining domestic stasis camouflage the continual flow of resources generating the home’s interior stability. The body of artwork was made using two and three dimensional techniques to examine the interplay between image making and space making in our experience of the world.