Installation view:
a veritable (un) mooring, MADA Now, Honours BFA Graduate Exhibition, Monash University, 2017
a veritable (un) mooring, MADA Now, Honours BFA Graduate Exhibition, Monash University, 2017
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"a veritable (un) mooring is a documentation of the artist’s relationship with her 91-year-old grandmother who has advanced Alzheimers and the dialogue between mourning and becoming that plays out through their exchange. The photographs presented move between different temporal registers. The wooden support-structures consider the ways in which the artist is capable of support. The artist is seeking temporal meeting points with her grandmother, passing into one another’s time and passing through one another’s image. Memory-loss is a productive force that consistently pushes one out of time. Through the work the artist is pushing back against this force, resisting losing time and space with her grandmother. Amidst this struggle, she is exchanging notions of futility for futurity and is seeking and finding moments of connection, self-realisation and care."
List of works:
Josephine Mead, Curved Support Frame (Just Holding Up), 2017
Tasmanian oak, glue, dowel, screws, wood putty, wax, vinyl, felt, sand, plastic sheeting, cotton thread
181cm x 94cm x 94cm.
Josephine Mead, Act. Generational reflections: an investigation into acts of self-care (part 1), 2017
Inkjet print (created from scanned film photograph) on 310gsm Ilford Smooth Pearl paper, framed in custom-made Tasmanian oak frame
43cm x 27.2cm.
AP (edition of 5)
Josephine Mead, Act. Generational reflections: an investigation into acts of self-care (part 2), 2017
Inkjet print (created from scanned film photograph) on 310gsm Ilford Smooth Pearl paper, framed in custom-made Tasmanian oak frame
43cm x 27.2cm.
AP (edition of 5)
Josephine Mead, a veritable (un) mooring, 2017
Inkjet print on 310gsm Canson Platine paper, framed in custom-made Tasmanian oak frame
60.5cm x 41.5cm
AP (edition of 3)
Josephine Mead, Tall Support Structure (Mirror Device), 2017
Tasmanian oak, glue, screws, wood putty, wax, vinyl, felt, sand, plastic sheeting, cotton thread
240cm x 138m x 107.5cm.
Josephine Mead, Mourning as a productive act, 2017
Inkjet print (created from scanned film photograph) on 310gsm Canson Photographique paper, framed in custom-made Tasmanian oak frame
43cm x 27.2cm.
AP (edition of 5)
Josephine Mead, Leg of the Child, 2017
Inkjet print (created from scanned film photograph) on 310gsm Ilford Smooth Pearl paper, framed in custom-made Tasmanian oak frame
43cm x 27.2cm.
AP (edition of 5)
Josephine Mead, Holding Position, 2017
Inkjet print on 310gsm Ilford Smooth Pearl paper, framed in custom-made Tasmanian oak frame
43cm x 27.2cm.
AP (edition of 5)
Josephine Mead, A lesson in holding oneself up, 2017
Inkjet print on 310gsm Ilford Smooth Pearl paper, framed in custom-made Tasmanian oak frame
43cm x 27.2cm.
AP (edition of 5)
(All images curtesy of the artist)
