Artist statement. - not finished

The initial concept for this assignment initiated by ***** my place . Rather than focusing on a physical place i chose to look at a person's place within their family. The reason for choosing place within a family was inspired by *** happening with my own family at the time accompanied with my inspiration of artists such as Félix González-Torres (1) and Pamela Croft(2) using personal subjects in their artwork. Though this was initially intended as a personal look into place, this was by no means inteneded to be any type of therapy nor has it turned out to be directly referencing my family.

While analysing movie scenes of families having dinner, interesting similarities appeared in all of the scenes. Though the movies varied in their sound level or way the families interacted, there was always some type of awkwardness senced amongst the family members.


Similar to the Rorschach inkblot test, viewers of this video will pick up on phrases and words according to what is relevant to them personally.


By Juxtaposing the images of different families in a grid, it highlights both the differences and similarities of families. The range of different issues apparent in these videos highlights the multifaced nature of .......



Félix González-Torres



Pamela Croft.