Rachel Chapman

My practice spans video, sound, collage, painting and sculpture. I work with themes of community, family, queerness and home.

In the LOVE LANGUAGES series, I use video and collage to show how queer communities have liberated the five love languages from their conservative, homophobic origins. Presenting them reimagined through the lens of my community, physical touch, words of affirmation, quality time, gifts, and acts of service become conduits for platonic and romantic love that transcend gender, sexuality, and cis-heteronormative relationship structures. Informed by conversations and interviews with friends and featuring the words of Mag O'Brien, this work is a collaborative testament to our resilience and our care for one another.

The video HOME explores the fallibility of memory. Frenzied and layered illustrations respond to my sister's recollections of our transient childhood, replicating the sensation of attempting to grasp memories that continually shift and change over time. The work captures the impermanence of our childhood homes, and celebrates the bonds formed within them.