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LuLuCat Hailouros
IG @CIRCUSLUPUS
About
Working with an adapted metaphor based on Blood Falls, AN., I use found and recycled materials to create 'embodied topographies.'
Following in the Surrealist tradition, my work incorporates chance in all facets, from material gathering and manipulation to the circuitous route each takes to completion.
My work inverts the standard, voyeuristic presentation of female bodies by eschewing form for function. In absence of passively familiar fields of flesh, I Instead present messy, mutating, interdependent systems of becoming. Each piece is built to shift, sag, and sway over time. Like the shadows in a Shirley Jackson story, they refuse to stay still or stay defined, instead maintaining their own eerie autonomy.
The symbolism of Blood Falls informs both the aesthetics and construction of the work as the 'unconscious' pathways of their construction mimic the unplanned processes of accumulation, erosion and collapse that define geologic feature formation.
Materials range from plastic packaging to second hand fabrics, found toys, ribbons, cables and beyond, and are manipulated by hand-dying, bleaching, burning, intentional weather exposure, etc. My work creates new form from that which already exists.
Beginning as wall hanging pieces built upon re-purposed canvases, my work continues to evolve towards a more sculptural and process-oriented perspective.
