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- Lucy Sweeney
Lucy
Sweeney
What Novelty is Worth that Sweet Monotony
“What novelty is worth that sweet monotony? Where everything is known and loved because it is known.” – George Eliot, The Mill on The Floss
What Novelty is Worth that Sweet Monotony is the product of exploring the resonance of vulnerability through the lens of my own lived experience. Capturing intimate vignettes that speak to the dichotomies surrounding the feeling of being known. Looking to words and a loss for words, language and silence, comforting and confronting, I come to understand my own personal histories with the act of being perceived.
Employing the use of monoprinted text, slide projection and found objects, the exhibition creates a pocket of nuance that invites its viewers in, to consider their relationship with vulnerability while discovering what it means to the artist. Viewing the work as a whole or taking the time to peer closer to the subtleties that answer some questions and pose others.
The work communes in the form of a small, fossilised shark tooth that sits at the crux of the project. A physical manifestation of the feeling of being known and an homage to the project’s beginnings, the shark tooth grounds the more nebulous concepts in the ever personal and sentimental.