Icare
Exhibition Order of the Real, Installation view, Copeland Gallery, June 2017
Icare is a personal narrative based on the experience of living between two countries. The series combines poetry, analogue photography and risograph printing to depict the constant but unpredictable process of renewing and recreating the self and demonstrates the transient instability of moving between two cultures and two lives.
Icare is a body of work created to be a loose-leaf book printed on riso, combining image and text from both France and Wales. I was attempting to explore and understand how constant travelling was affecting me, my perceptions of a home country and my relationship to language (I started to lose my French and was very affected by it). It was exhibited as a fragmented narrative on a made up display table, accompanied by a poem. I wanted each person to view the work without being influenced by an overtly descriptive, traditional artist statement. The physicality and disorganisation of the prints allow the work to change narrative and shape depending on the viewer.
