Sculpture & Combined Media
Fiona Gordon
Outlining my own version of female experience through video and digital processes flips the restricted, minimized idea of femininity on its head and embraces the surreal and the bizarre. My work explores excess with reference to fashion iconography and the overwhelming amount of images of the female body and surrounding ideologies that we absorb daily. The screen places performance and performativity at the heart of self-presentation, played out in my practice by the ‘stay-at-home hun’ persona. A performative personality created to explore desires of escapism, the problematics of the domestic goddess and femininity in confinement, she uses her image to access and engage with the outside world.
The ‘stay-at-home hun’ persona attempts to detach from immanent reality by pushing the limits of the everyday, looking to the online consumerist world as her utopian escape. Creating masquerades through dress acts as an outlet whilst challenging the complexities around playing with femininity and the notion of being excessive or ‘extra’. My films and personas explore the chasm between women’s interior voice and expectations of exterior perfection. They challenge the messy woman trope. The ‘stay-at-home hun’ persona questions modern femininity and approaches femaleness in a more chaotic, absurd and bizarre way.