Babette Emery
In my work I attempt to re-think in-between sites through the application of philosophical interrogations of bodily transgressions and the abject. I explore the excesses, dirt and openness which characterise such spaces and their unsettling of one's awareness of bodily flows and desires. Motivated by post-structuralist and feminist philosophy and psychoanalysis, I articulate webs of connectivity and intimacy through a process of intimate manipulation, testing and relinquishing control over my materials. By engaging intimately with the forms that are found and grow upon surfaces, I aim to extract ambiguous bodies and traces that emphasise the becomings and differences of uncertain sites. My work resides in a realm of fluidity, openness and transformation that I map onto and through the world.
Babette Emery, Install View. Image Courtesy: University of Melbourne.
Babette Emery, Install View. Image Courtesy: University of Melbourne.
Babette Emery, Milking, soft pastel on paper, 2022, image courtesy of Olivia Dupé
Babette Emery, Tell me a story you have told me before, soft pastel on linen, 2023. Image courtesy of Olivia Dupé
Babette Emery, Swelling where the mud is, soft pastel on linen, 2023, Image courtesy of Olivia Dupé.
Babette Emery, Rush underneath, soft pastel on linen, 2023. Image courtesy of Olivia Dupé
Babette Emery, Four Walls Within My Four Walls, nylon, wax, feathers, polyester stuffing, wire, 2022. Image courtesy of Olivia Dupé.
Babette Emery, Four Walls Within My Four Walls, nylon, wax, weathers, polyester stuffing, wire, 2022, image courtesy of Olivia Dupé
Faculty of Fine Arts and Music
University of Melbourne