Juz Kitson

Juz Kitson’s installations represent the all-encompassing taxonomic display of both human and animal condition, through the push and pull of ambiguity and abjection and motivated heavily on the writing’s of Julia Kristivas ‘Power of Horror’ and Sogyal Rinpoche’s The ‘Tibetan book of Living and Dying’, through collections of absurd materiality that incorporate inanimate objects and reclaimed animal pelts, husks and tusks sourced through the rugged terrain of the Australian landscape and full of boundless, inimitable desire through the morphing of hand formed pure porcelaneous objects made while in Jingdezhen China, the Ancient Porcelain city, endlessly celebrating the vital importance of both life and death, eros and thanatos and the constant reminder of our own materiality. These corporeal installations full and imbued with hidden meaning are raw and absurdly familiar; yet so unfamiliar. Objects no longer represent parts of body, but rather embody literally being ‘cast off’ and now represent human emotion and condition. They are soft, tender and inviting, luscious and satisfying, warm and comforting yet possibly dangerously threatening, they are something monstrous, abnormal and obscene yet oddly beautiful, they intend to hold their presence in any given space, classical in symmetry and strength and powerful without words, these sublimated ‘beings’ will be able to exist on their own terms. The objects found; through foraging over land or salvaging through Antique markets become re-contextualised, they refer to a human reaction, a feeling, a moment in time.

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