Harem ROOM-1
Harem, meaning a group of women perceived as centering around a particular male.
- A group of female animals sharing a single mate.
- A prohibited, or forbidden place.
- Separate quarters.
- Kept safe, or 'sanctuary.'
Room, meaning a space that can be occupied or where something can be done, especially viewed in terms of whether there is enough. Enough room.
- Room for contemplation, play, transgression.
- Capacity, scope, leeway, latitude, freedom, opportunity and chance.
Kawaii β the culture of cuteness in Japan.
Harem ROOM-1, a site-responsive, figurative installation, utilizes a little-known meaning of the term harem to refer to a collection of like, fetishized elements. This staging of 75 cat-objects creates a social ontology, pointing to assumptions about identity, gender, desire, consumerism and our digital subconscious.
Mixed media. Dimensions Variable. 2016. Installation View: On Stellar Rays, NYC.
Cat Object-1 (adrift), three white suprematist cats set adrift on a new iceberg in a warming ocean... a fragment from Larsen C... somewhere near Antarctica.
Baltic birch, rabbit fur, mixed media. 21-ΒΌ by 20 by 14 inches. 2017.