THE HOUSE IN MY HEAD HAS MANY STORIES A solo exhibition by Sitaara Stodel 18.08 - 18.09.2021 Words by Jessica Bosworth Smith
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itaara Stodel is an artist who uses her creative practice to explore and unpack the experiences of moving homes regularly during her formative years. Throughout her many moves, from childhood to adult life, her idea around “home” has shifted and evolved many times. Her experience of the home as a transitory space has called into question the very nature of this concept. The artist, having experienced over and over the event of being removed, or removing herself, from spaces which are usually demarcated as a home, Stodel has had to grapple with the abstract concept of a homespace and the lived reality of one. Growing up, the artist was heavily influenced by representations of homes and ideals of family perpetuated by the media. Indeed, Stodel often has dreams where the space of home and family feature prominently. In her adult life, the artist has had to dismantle her complex emotions towards these two fundamental, and often idealised, social constructs. The realization that there is no
Any Cat that Crosses Your Path is Good Luck, 2021. Found photographs and gold and neon vinyl on screen printed archival mounting board, 31,5 x 26,5cm
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