TANJA BRUCKNER with collage by collaborator STEVE TIERNEY, FREYA JOBBINS

Its Rape.

Their work for this exhibition is a highly personal examination of the effects of trauma after rape, based on Bruckner and Jobbins’ own experience. To visualize the many “faces” and “layers” of trauma, self-portraits are created by Tanja using performance artist, friend and rape survivor Erica Englert these images are cut by long time collaborator and friend Steve Tierney. These black and white images depicting anger, fear, confusion are juxtaposed to the imagery of sex pest photographer Terry Richardsons work which are displayed in Bruckner’s own istalled rape scene. 

FREYA JOBBINS

Domus (video work)

The DOMUS series is based on the realisation, acceptance and public confession of being a victim of domestic violence.

My work is based on appropriation, re-assemblage and subversion of pre-existent objects, where I continue to explore notions of identity, motifs and my own dissimulation. With a focus on technical craftsmanship through intricate dissection and reconstruction of the humanoid face using skin toned doll parts, in my assembled masks.

Re-contextualising the dolls, which are universal in the domestic environment, acknowledges the child/children in this environment and the childhood of both victim and perpetrator and they expose our maternal and paternal emotions. I like to elicit the uncanny, or strangely familiar and unsettling feelings of recognition by using the selected materials and the symbolic narratives to address silent and secretive human truths in our intimate relationships.