CONNIE HOPE

Dora Perini’s sculpted white goods ooze the absurdity I inject into my own work. Perini plays with the disjointed visual narrative that causes cognitive disparities between an object, represented by its colloquial connotations and what it actually signifies. For instance, a fridge itself is a common sight on driveways. This arouses certain perceptions of the kinds of people that place them there. Another kind of visual language is spoken when placed with purpose; In a kitchen showroom. Or, an actual kitchen. For, once a fridge is here, we understand the object to be a vessel for the exclusive sentient necessity of consuming food. Place matters. Staging matters. Once an appliance is taken out of context, (even if it’s only a mere few metres of where it is ‘supposed’ to be) it means something else. Fridge Satellite does something else entirely. Her process, like mine, starts with what she calls the reconfiguration of an object. For this series, Perini explores Fridge Juice as a material that represents an abstract idea, realised as the sculptures existence elixir.

Perini expresses desire to fetishise the fridge as a replacement of the requirement of containing food.

By translating words and ideas into ‘recipes’ she is able to bring the concept back to semantics.

When we observe this artwork, we see more than the white good. But, its ( a fridge) very presence as assemblage can not be ignored. Of course, Perini has worked to adorn the fridges’ formal qualities with more lifelike representations of movement and bodily function. Tubing sends semi-sentient signals to unknown spaces. and material that seems to expand on its own accord. Ribbed inlays where shelves can lay create a new structure for this being that can’t quite exist yet. Because we can’t name it. This overlay of recognised and signified opens up the subjective question of beauty?

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The existence elixir of my work is yet to be defined. It might be found in the manipulation and replication of the sculptures. When passed through the lense they show a perfect symmetry that was never there in the first place.

Sculpted Sentients, Augmented installation shots from In The Making, plastic, dust sheets, clay slip, human hair, concrete. 2023.

Or, it could be that the very matter I am sculpting with is its blood and guts. Indeterminable white powders purchased from trade warehouses that I chaotically concoct together in hope that they do what i couldn’t be bothered to read on the tin.