Edinburgh College of Art 2021 Graduate show
Contemporary Art Practice MFA
 
"PANDEMONIUM", consisted of nine A1 portraits and an A5 zine with titles of the portraits.

The overall reaction to this body of work was positive, as I watched visitors laugh as they saw the portraits and read their humourous titles in the zine.   

These portraits document my family and friends celebrations and conversations that punctuate their lives at distance through video call screenshots to find honest humour in the banal. A spectacle influenced by carnival where rules of everyday lives conformity are challenged, and rituals are parodied. By nature, each isolated individual decided to either become an eccentric character or allow telling inner emotions to surface. The function of the carnivalesque attitude is to engage the audience’s curiosity and evoke a smile, a reminder of what it means to be human.

The humourous purpose of "PANDEMONIUM" proved functional, and will continue to further explore the carnivalesque, community and conversation within my next body of work.

(How amazing to have Edinburgh castle in the background of my exhibition pictures)