Allyson Keehan
www.allysonkeehan.ie
@allysonkeehan
Statement:
My work investigates the expanded field of painting, whilst exploring the parameters and boundaries imposed by conventional painting practices. Through these material investigations, I consider subjects of fetish, female desire, fantasy and obsession. These notions are brought together through the use of drapery. Drapery is defined by what it does. It exposes relationships, tensions, spaces and forms. This research focuses on the subject of drapery as a device for examining the material concerns of painting as an expanded practice.
A key concern is a female and personal relationship to materiality. I explore this theme through a lens of fetishisation. The approach applies feminist strategies to enable challenges to the phallocentric understanding of fetish. Freud positioned fetish as the domain of masculine sexuality and that women are the passive subject of men's fetishisation. The main issue with this interpretation is that it dismisses possibilities of female fetishisation. I linger in these thoughts of materiality, fetish, desire and my intuitions as a woman.
www.allysonkeehan.ie
@allysonkeehan
Statement:
My work investigates the expanded field of painting, whilst exploring the parameters and boundaries imposed by conventional painting practices. Through these material investigations, I consider subjects of fetish, female desire, fantasy and obsession. These notions are brought together through the use of drapery. Drapery is defined by what it does. It exposes relationships, tensions, spaces and forms. This research focuses on the subject of drapery as a device for examining the material concerns of painting as an expanded practice.
A key concern is a female and personal relationship to materiality. I explore this theme through a lens of fetishisation. The approach applies feminist strategies to enable challenges to the phallocentric understanding of fetish. Freud positioned fetish as the domain of masculine sexuality and that women are the passive subject of men's fetishisation. The main issue with this interpretation is that it dismisses possibilities of female fetishisation. I linger in these thoughts of materiality, fetish, desire and my intuitions as a woman.
Draped Red Blocks
2022
2022