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Perspex and plastic/foil contact
15 x 1925 cm
Cross With You Remix 2025 is a text based work that explores the tension between the surface and sentiment, language and legibility, domesticity and dissent. Spoken in a female
voice, the work plays with the quiet codes of gendered emotion and navigating historical
social norms and the subtle terrain between the sign and the signified.
In this work the artist has used the word “cross” as a substitute for the word “angry”; a word
rarely permitted to women in its full force. Historically cross has been allowed; “a bit cross”,
“peeved” “ ill tempered”. These diminutives are the sanctioned registers of female
displeasure; modulated, softened, palatable. Rage, however, is unseemly. Cross With You
remix 2025 names this repression while inhabiting its language revealing the frictions and
polarities that live within intimacy; blame, affection, resistance and longing. Originally created in 2003 in wood veneer and mixed media, the 2025 remix transforms the work through new materials of perspex and rose gold foil veneer bringing reflectivity and ornamentation into dialogue with the text content.
The mirrored surface implicates the viewer, collapsing the distance between artwork and
audience. In this way the piece becomes a gestalt; a whole greater than its verbal parts,
where language , reflection and materiality converge. In Remix 2025 the artist personally reclaims the joy of pink and shiny, that has been long
repressed.
Perspex and plastic/foil contact
15 x 1925 cm
Cross With You Remix 2025 is a text based work that explores the tension between the surface and sentiment, language and legibility, domesticity and dissent. Spoken in a female
voice, the work plays with the quiet codes of gendered emotion and navigating historical
social norms and the subtle terrain between the sign and the signified.
In this work the artist has used the word “cross” as a substitute for the word “angry”; a word
rarely permitted to women in its full force. Historically cross has been allowed; “a bit cross”,
“peeved” “ ill tempered”. These diminutives are the sanctioned registers of female
displeasure; modulated, softened, palatable. Rage, however, is unseemly. Cross With You
remix 2025 names this repression while inhabiting its language revealing the frictions and
polarities that live within intimacy; blame, affection, resistance and longing. Originally created in 2003 in wood veneer and mixed media, the 2025 remix transforms the work through new materials of perspex and rose gold foil veneer bringing reflectivity and ornamentation into dialogue with the text content.
The mirrored surface implicates the viewer, collapsing the distance between artwork and
audience. In this way the piece becomes a gestalt; a whole greater than its verbal parts,
where language , reflection and materiality converge. In Remix 2025 the artist personally reclaims the joy of pink and shiny, that has been long
repressed.