A suite of three looped videos titled ‘We are a city! I, II & III’ depict basic cardboard model houses, based on self builds from the global south, wavy with the heat of a glaring sun. They create a new temperature for the room which is echoed by the intense hues of the paintings, sculptural tableaux and arched plaster cast shading a strip of pale skin on  a mat beneath it.
Recurring motifs, including architectural arches and pictorially schematised plants, move across media as if in translation. This linguistic element is picked up by two publications displayed within ‘Vitrine (womb)’ that narrate fragments from the life of the fictitious character ‘Macy Dott’. They centre female narrative as an approach to the other works and link the female body, as producer and subject, to architecture.
RA Schools Show, Royal Academy of Arts, 2015

Installation image at RA Schools Show, 2015. Works from left to right: Building: oil on canvas; We are a city! II: HD video, seamless loop.

We are a city! II: HD video, seamless loop.

Installation image at RA Schools Show, 2015. Works from left to right: Building; Vitrine (womb); Untitled (arco/sombra); We are a city! I; Plantas no.2 & 3; Shelf sculpture (mirror arch); Crop III; Shelf sculpture (baby blue factory); We are a city! III.

We are a city! III: HD video, seamless loop.

Installation image at RA Schools Show, 2015. Works from left to right: Still life (blush) no. 3: oil on canvas; Shelf sculpture (baby blue factory): galvanised shelf, cardboard, acrylic paint; Cut Out: oil paint on cardboard

Cut Out: oil on cardboard.

Still life (blush) no.3: oil on canvas.

Installation image at RA Schools Show, 2015. Works from left to right: Vitrine (womb): Macy Dott Episodes 1&3, steel, mdf, glass, cardboard, spray paint, acrylic paint, nail polish; Triumphal Arch: archival inkjet print; Untitled (arco/sombra): unique plaster cast, banner textile print.


Macy Dott: Episode 1: Screen print on paper.

Macy Dott: Episode 3: Screen print on paper.

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