While revisiting my own home in American suburbia, I was reacquainted with motifs and household items used in the life-long acts by women to ‘play house’.
By erotically performing as a ‘prop’, I transform these once familiar spaces into a mise en scene, highlighting the connection between the environment and the internal states of women past and present. By aggressively and assertively impersonating or ‘playing the house’, I attempt to reclaim these estranged and alienating domestic spaces. I am turning the gaze back on to you.
By destabilizing normality I attempt to free myself and the next generations from the restrictions constraining women in penance for their greatest gift– life.