Isabella Rose Thornton’s practice grows from Griselda Pollock’s notes on feminist trauma aesthetics. Trauma is considered within post-modernist conceptualisation of art documentation, as archival contingency. The artist pursues introspective yet publically performed explorations of her concerns through the use of traditional casting methods and photocopying techniques. Here the continuous destruction of the artists own body, threatening its own erasure, hinges upon the dichotomy of the relentless reproduction of itself. The work that forms is an output of in-betweens; in-between sculpture and photography, event and memory, original and copy, creative agency and mechanised repetition. Such is trauma itself, an in-between.

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