Lauren McCartney
Lauren McCartney
Glow
Digital Video
02:52
Glow explores the perceived guilt associated with the stillness of the female body in the domestic realm. Masses of dough, as representative of excess, indulgence and forbidden female flesh are stuffed into two vases. Expanding slowly, the sensual and grotesque material secretes and leaks, eventually tumbling down and disrupting the fragile vessels.
This work reflects on the absurdity that women should be anything but still during lockdown periods. Instead, we should be focusing our new ‘free’ time in isolation, not in quietness or contemplation, but working our bodies and modifying our food consumption, to not only survive the COVID-19 pandemic but to blossom into ‘improved’ physical versions of ourselves as we do so.
(Screenshot from video)