installation ideas - final push

From my Oral Presentation feedback: “The themes relating to Penelope have been productive, but in many ways still a little tenuous and under explored in the work itself…..A development of mythological narrative and a feminist position could be useful in going forward …. in the spirit of Penelope, a reworking of myth that debates patriarchal systems might be potentially fruitful.”

Therefore, from this installation by Eva Hesse, I imagined the shroud that Penelope weaves suspended, having been glued to another piece of fabric, from a domestic clothes line attached to the wall. This would introduce the arena of domesticity in the hanging of washing. The reference to Penelope and her action of making and unmaking and the feminist outcomes of that control of the situation. The shroud and fabric could also have emblems of lace from tablecloths printing on the the surface, the shroud becoming the tablecloth and the making and unmaking in the contemporary domestic sphere.