Hunger
'Hunger' uses the familiarity of the dinner table to isolate and augment
the subtext of small talk between intimate pairs. Two women sit
motionless, looking at each other from across a bare table. The women
are physically connected by a banded form; their arms are linked in a
single tube, as if they are wearing one piece of clothing. The knitted
band suggests warmth and coziness, but also becomes a shared
straitjacket, confining each to the unrelenting mirroring of the other.
In
this heightened visual metaphor, each woman has only a single sentence
to offer. One is desperate for attention and approval (“Is it good?”),
the other is withholding (“If I don’t say anything, it’s good”). Each
woman is therefore isolated in her proximity to the other. Exploring the
myriad relationships between two people: lovers, parent / child,
teacher / student, friends, colleagues, clerk / client, 'Hunger'
considers all the ways we cannot communicate, but long to connect.
Big Orbit Gallery | Buffalo, NY | May 2011
Microscope Gallery | Brooklyn, NY | June 2011
Performed each for 5 hours
