you are over(re)acting
May I have your attention
This is an attempt to understand the Sanford Meisner acting technique through the language of tennis. Meisner’s improvisational method demonstrates how sincerity relies on reaction and repetition and supports that attention and insecurities play a crucial role in the display of truth. Images of instinct in nature versus socialised contexts are implemented to examine performative behaviour .
Inkjet printing, ring binding
29.5 x 27 cm
2018
You are overreacting: Exploring sincerity in performances of the everyday
Considering Erving Goffman’s sociological book The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, this work scrutunizes staged behaviour. The imagery considers the ways in which one’s nurtured view of reality can be disrupted and inspects false performances so as to comprehend honest ones. Goffman’s key definitions and his research on the motives behind the staged transform into symbolic motifs, anatomical drawings, collages and colour studies, which are repeated and contextualised. What is then examined is the kitchen and the bathroom as juxtaposing settings for performances, exploring the notions of privacy, intimacy, backstage, frontstage and rehearsal.
Inkjet prints, screen-print, etching, spiral bound
28 x 21.4 cm
2018
This is an attempt to understand the Sanford Meisner acting technique through the language of tennis. Meisner’s improvisational method demonstrates how sincerity relies on reaction and repetition and supports that attention and insecurities play a crucial role in the display of truth. Images of instinct in nature versus socialised contexts are implemented to examine performative behaviour .
Inkjet printing, ring binding
29.5 x 27 cm
2018
You are overreacting: Exploring sincerity in performances of the everyday
Considering Erving Goffman’s sociological book The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, this work scrutunizes staged behaviour. The imagery considers the ways in which one’s nurtured view of reality can be disrupted and inspects false performances so as to comprehend honest ones. Goffman’s key definitions and his research on the motives behind the staged transform into symbolic motifs, anatomical drawings, collages and colour studies, which are repeated and contextualised. What is then examined is the kitchen and the bathroom as juxtaposing settings for performances, exploring the notions of privacy, intimacy, backstage, frontstage and rehearsal.
Inkjet prints, screen-print, etching, spiral bound
28 x 21.4 cm
2018
