Living Room

Sarah Valente

Living Room relates the body to a vessel. Fusing sculpture and painting, she creates a space to reflect on the psychological and physical capacity of the body's ability to record, inviting us to evaluate these two clashing spheres of self. Our self-perception draws on both of these spheres to define who we are and why we are in a constant struggle for power that becomes hard to separate. Utilizing unconventional materials, such as slime and silicone rubber, she creates a visceral experience to place the audience inside this unstable dimension. The work invites you to evaluate your true self from your perceived self. Do we exist for ourselves or for other people? How much is compromised and where? Our ideas are hardly ever our own. Self-exploitation can be a gesture of our control or our condemnation.