Ordinary Crises, 2019
MFA thesis exhibition, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland, OR
Ordinary Crises is a collection of object arrangements whereby small dramas of insecurity play out. Found, made, bought or altered, the objects act as substitutions – stand-ins for less easily satisfied hungers. The work emerges from ongoing frustration with solutions for dissatisfaction offered by our market-driven society, which continually place responsibility of all forms of unhappiness back on the individual, and which tell us we can solve these problems through our role as consumers. Created through ongoing processes of finding, altering and moving, these speculative scenarios attempt to probe my personal anxieties in order to reveal and connect to more collective affective states of confusion and psychic exhaustion amidst ongoing uncertainty and precarity of the present moment.
