Name of course:
Bachelour of Fine Art (Visual Art) Honours
Description:
Anastasia Booth is an Australian artist who uses sculpture and installation to re-evaluate the position of female desire in sexual fetish. Booth plays with the idea of fetish as an instrumental strategy, seeing it as a mode to work across different theoretical and material discourses. In her work the play between explicit and implicit depiction creates an ambiguity that has suggestive potency, where fragmentation and dysfunction initiate diverse readings. These dialogues in the work make apparent the anxiety and desire inherent in the viewer and question how the visual conventions of erotica and art history are mutually informative.
That Cold Sense Of is a large glass freezer display case mounted on a black plinth, the object inside is a hand-made leather harness suspended from which is a ice phallus. The work plays upon the forms and conventions of commercially available sex aids but through the use of a temporal substance like ice raises questions about the functionality and usefulness of such an object.
Website:
anastasiabooth.weebly.com