Untitled Wall (2016)

A body of experimental works combining drawing, painting, performative action, and photography, Untitled Wall explores how these mediums can coexist as intersecting propositions that challenge their respective limits, boundaries, and thresholds between disciplines, the body, and the surfaces it encounters.

This work emerges from my interest in interrogating social and artistic constructs, particularly in relation to identity formation. Through the body and performative action, I explore what it means to exist in-between. Experimental photographic interventions work as conceptual tools that both mediate and trouble conventional categories of media, while the act of documentation becomes a way to reconfigure visibility.

The mise-en-scène of the studio, drawing, and bodily gesture confront conventional representations and politics of the artwork. Through this, I explore realities of liminal identity—my own and that of others—and how presence and representation exist in tension.

The studio wall functions as a palimpsestic surface of mark-making and erasure. The photographic images become documents that hold the trace, the blur, residue of bodies in motion, and time unfolding—forming a space of becoming in which presence is made known through its disappearance.

The act of erasing the wall drawings after each photographic performance offers a reflection on impermanence and values transformation, presence, and disappearance as essential parts of the creative process.

Monograph produced by the Gas Company, with graphic design by Jay Ginsherman and edited by Nikos Kount.

The work was exhibited at Wallspace Gallery, Ottawa (2015), and curated by Patricia Barr.