“Goblina and the Magic Ribbon: The Night After,” is an interactive installation where the viewer is able to step into a moment of a story: the night after a wedding. By investigating the objects on the bedspread, including labelled garters and ties, hand-painted wallpaper, and ceramic vessels, the viewer can piece together what happened ‘last night.’ As they investigate, the notion of a traditional marriage falls apart, replaced by the story the work tells of a polyamorous, transsexual relationship, confronting the viewer with their own assumptions regarding what gets to be called, ‘love,’ ‘marriage,’ and ‘normal.’ The mixture of commonplace objects, such as the comforter and pillows, and fantastical objects, such as the ewer, jug, and wallpaper, conflate the line between our reality and the fictional world I’ve created. From this liminal space, the viewer can reconsider the assumption that our reality is the only possible one as they live a moment in another.
Goblina and the Magic Ribbon: The Night After
Glazed stoneware, craft paper, acrylic paint, comforter, bed sheets, pillow cases, pillows, rose perfume, olive oil, blueberry juice, red wine
7 x 7 x 7′
2024
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