Saturday 8 December 2012

Sally Price

Kitchen Specimens

Over 10,000,000 bacteria fester in the average kitchen sponge. Alarming as this sounds, in reality we live with their presence every day without mass panic or fear. Is this because we can't see them?

I am experimenting with the clash between desire and disgust, curiosity and revulsion, to create uncomfortably alluring tactile pieces. Bacterial formations are beautiful but it feels wrong to admire something that can be such a threat to our bodies. I have translated this invisible build up of germs into an encrusted, lavish embellishment, using colours found in both cleaning products and dyed microbe specimens. The meeting of clean and unclean becomes uncomfortable but strangely appealing.

The use of everyday objects in my work plays on recognition, and leads to the ordinary becoming extraordinary. I am re-examining the things around us- what they suggest and how we react to them.



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