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- Shauna Harris
Shauna
Harris
TRAVERSE AND OCCUPY
The ‘everyday’ is often laden with negative connotations, detached from exceptional moments and defined by its absence of distinction or differentiation, ultimately defined as the essential, taken-for-granted continuum of mundane activity that outlines forays into more esoteric experiences.
Consideration of place and portraiture ensures a representation of the indecisive movement, in which nothing of much importance is happening yet a sense of interior tension, resonates. This evocation prevails through a consideration of the ambiguity of the urban, and ultimately its people.
As Martha Rosler suggests “the urban is an art- historical as well as a contemporary problem, which requires that we contend with ourselves and the spaces we traverse and occupy.”
This work is inspired by the complex architecture of both place and people. The work establishes an ambiguous familiarity with the viewer, ensuring an uneasy relatability extended at arm’s length.