Mourning Funes,
C3 Artspace, July 2019
Mourning Funes is an exhibition that combines two practices that work with ritual: the ritual of making and ritual made personally sacred. Working with clay, wax, drawing and found object/ image, this installation intends to lead you by the hand through a set of seemingly encrypted images and objects: offered in the absence of a map that could be used to make connections. The act of making, as it interweaves with personal narrative, is brought together through visual references to mythology, folklore and the gothic. In creating these ceremonial works that are referential of mourning and decay, materials begin to flake, rot. Clay crumbles, candles liquesce and turn to puddles. Mourning Funes came from our shared interest in the imagery and symbolism of grottos–as well as the spaces they hold in our memories, as holes in the ground.