Yes: A Reflection On Desire
Sophie Morrow
24
January 2018
24
January
2018
9
February 2018
This piece links Morrow’s studies of hidden and performed selves with her interest in sex and erotic desire. Yes: A Reflection On Desire presents a recording of a voice repeating the word ‘yes’ over and over again. The relentless ‘yes’ seeks to know desire while considering the complexities of consent. The implied eroticism and eerie vulnerability mirrors the fragility of one’s relationship with the sensual self; the disembodied, drone-like character reveals the relentlessness of the underlying ambivalence in the relationship between self-perception and desire.
This piece links Morrow’s studies of hidden and performed selves with her interest in sex and erotic desire. Yes: A Reflection On Desire presents a recording of a voice repeating the word ‘yes’ over and over again. The relentless ‘yes’ seeks to know desire while considering the complexities of consent. The implied eroticism and eerie vulnerability mirrors the fragility of one’s relationship with the sensual self; the disembodied, drone-like character reveals the relentlessness of the underlying ambivalence in the relationship between self-perception and desire.
Sophie Morrow
Sophie’s work investigates language, body and voice, to create intimate and unsettling moments of contemplation. Their practice is influenced by new media, poetry, textiles, performance, ritual practices, contemporary queer theory and feminism. They have exhibited both locally and internationally, and have participated in artist in residence programs at Somos Gallery in Berlin, Kunstort Eleven Artspace in Börstingen, Germany and Arteles Creative Centre in Haukijäryi, Finland. They recently completed a Master of Fine Art by research at the Victorian College of the Arts. Sophie lives and works in Naarm, on unceded Wurundjeri land.