Keena, Pauline

Statement

The work hovers between sculpture and the mother’s body. Manipulating materials opens up the human form.

My work addresses issues of corporeality and the meaning of the mother’s body as a location where ideas of interiority, of history and of language can be negotiated and rendered.

Traces and stains line up on the outside where memories of estrangement, that discontinuous state of being are stitched with death into the memory of surface, cloth and paper. Cloth, layers and layers of folded up skin open endlessly reaching out narratives that carry us beyond the created reality of bundled canvas.

Contact

paulinekeena@hotmail.com