Artist Statement
Broke Indissociables is a series concerned with language systems and meaning, and how they fail to reach semantic harmony. The works are executed through various forms, including paintings, sculpture, found objects, sound, and video. As an artist, I study the relationship that images and signs have with language, and the effects that semantic differences might have on our own habitus and how we act, as well as how we act towards others. This series uses deconstruction methods to critically analyze some of the forms of language we use as artists, but also as women and those in opposition to us in some way, shape or form e.g., hacks, or men.
A quote that gives support to the theoretical approach in this work comes from the etymological gaze of Jacques Derrida. In his book of essays, Psyche: Inventions of the Other (1998), he writes:
Between the two par’s the tain that is deposited beneath the two lines is language itself; it depends on words, and on the word “word”; it is the “word” that distributes, separates, on each side of itself, the two appearances of par. ‘Par le mot par…’ It opposes them, puts them opposite or vis-à-vis each other, links them indissociably yet also dissociates them forever. Eros and Psyche.”