| Tracey Clement |
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Border Zones focuses the artist's perception on how borders are highly charged zones electrified by tension and also touches on the possibility of transgression and transformation. Boundaries are liminal edges; cross the line and something will happen. Whether you move from one country to another, step from a private place into the public arena, penetrate someone’s personal space, or flaunt a social taboo; breeching a border is a point of transition.
Says Clement "Borders are seductive, they exert an almost magnetic pull. My works explore intimate boundaries and the heady combination of intimacy and anxiety that surrounds them."
Skin and textiles have certain qualities in common; they can be cut, torn, stretched and stitched. Both skin and textiles have an ambiguous quality; they are simultaneously solid and permeable; able to act as both barrier and filter. And both materials bear physical traces of age, use and abuse.
"In our image obsessed contemporary society, it seems that skin and clothing have become almost interchangeable, as seen in the prevailing attitude that your skin, face, breasts etc can simply be nipped and tucked; like getting a tailor to adjust your wardrobe to suit the current trends. Groundfloor Gallery 2006
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