Aviva Gandler’s 'In the Memory of the Maker' is a recorded fashion performance, conceptualised in response to issues around over-consumption.
12 July to 14 August 2022
Opening night: Tuesday 12 July, 5.30-7.30pm. Free, but RSVP essential via Eventbrite.
Find out more about First Site Gallery at Open Day on Sunday 14 August.
In the Memory of the Maker is a recorded fashion performance, conceptualised in response to over-consumption issues. During the video, participants unravel crocheted sections of their garments. The clothes transform into abstract materials, articulated by the gestures, and movements, of the participants. The transformed artefacts are a tangible representation of time, and energy exerted by humans. I call this process, memory-making. Memory-making, explores the relationship between making, and destruction. Perhaps, they are one, and the same.
Artist bio
Aviva contemplates societal structures, with the aspirations of improving the world, environmentally and socially. As a result, her art explores alternative systems for society - toeing the line between naive and insightful. Her hand-crafted work incorporates slow techniques that take weeks to make. For Aviva, these slow processes express how she wishes the world could be - a place, where matter, matters. In essence, Aviva's work is about taking matters into her own hands.
