Date of Award

2012

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Humanities

First Advisor

Anderson, Kim

Keywords

Art, Home, Memory

Area of Concentration

Art

Abstract

In my thesis, I visually deconstruct the home through the lens of memory. Elements of remembrance, such as fragmentation, disintegration, repetition, and compartmentalization, thus become prominent guides for the formal qualities of the two- and three-dimensional work. Seemingly following the trend of disillusionment of the home that was sparked by the anti-domestic feminist art of the 1970s, my work questions the nostalgia often associated with the home. This allows the resulting art to flirt with the uncanny. In this sense, the home almost transforms into a puzzle that is continuously undone and reconfigured in an attempt to find its essential being and value within possible solutions. Unfortunately, what mainly arises is an awareness of the elusive nature of an ideal based on the past, unveiling the loss that defines present reality. I contextualize my work through artists such as Edward Hopper, and Gordon Matta-Clark, and more contemporarily through Toba Khedoori, and Do-Ho Suh.

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