We all are tied to the idea of the exceptional. Every day, every action is supposed to count. We carry this hidden bias and embodied knowledge about the value of the everyday. With these constructed frameworks used to assign worth and value to these acts of invisible labour.
Our subconscious expectations woven into these routines and tasks. Nothing can escape this hierarchy; some routines and processes are worth more than others.
But what is worth counting? Must we be able to make sense of something to value it? The very nature of the everyday is in its mundanity, this tension between communal and intimate.
Fragment (of the everyday) Suspended
Video still, duration 2.56 minutes.
Everyday routine is valuable when completed, when understood, when it makes sense. Invisible to us all. Fragmenting and abstracting visual and auditory everyday actions challenges our own frameworks we use to assign value. What is worth counting? What is important? And how do we seem to have this predetermined?
la moka
Digitally layered and edited images.
A portrait of the morning.
morning portait
Digitally layered and edited images printed on acetate, layered while hung also, presented as a pair, 29.7cm x 42cm.
Installation view 1
Photography: Andrew Curtis
Installation view 2
Photography: Andrew Curtis
Lily Gentile, Fragment (of the everyday) Suspended
In the spirit of reconciliation Monash University acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
