- Venue
- COURTYARD ARTS and COMMUNITY CENTRE
- Starts
- Tuesday, June 21, 2011
- Ends
- Saturday, July 2, 2011
- Address
- Port Vale Hertford SG14 3AA
- Location
- South East England
The Shape of Memory explores human memory using body shaped fragments and fragments of text. Heather Jukes is a Fine Art practitioner with a background in genetics. She has always been interested in alternative ways of exploring the body’s identity – as shadows, as DNA sequences, and, in her most recent work as shaped fragments which follow the body’s contours. These forms are reminiscent of the shed skin a snake leaves behind and the empty chrysalis after an insect pupates. They carry a memory of the shape of what was before. In The Shape of Memory these fragments are presented as an installation creating an independent narrative as well as a dialogue with text on the gallery wall. There are references in Heather Jukes’ work to the paper garments created by Susan Cutts (‘we shape the clothes we wear, making them as individual as a thumbprint’); and the ideas explored by Olivier Goulet in his Skinbag series, where skin is reclassified as a fabric for making. She has also been influenced by the work of displaced Cuban artist Ana Mendieta, whose Siluetas were hollowed out of the earth to leave memories of her body in the landscape. The Shape of Memory is a University of Westminster MA Art and Media Practice degree exhibition.
