The artefact: 'Reenactment' was my contribution to the exhibition 'Mother Curator'.

Practice-based Research Question:
How can displaced industrial or architectural materials (cables) - the residues of people's inhabitation of a building, found in a tangled state and representing a moment of disorder, neglect and arrested decay and translated into new form by untangling, crafting and reshaping - hold bodily resonance outwith the original context? This sits within my research into architectures' function as ruined bodies that archive tacit knowledges, bodily memories and histories of care.

Within the curatorial framework of 'Mother Curator' how might the laborious processes of making through dematerialisation and resuspension engage with maternal labour - a body that carries, holds and sustains what is in flux? Can it become a poetic analogue for maternal foetal energy transfer as it pulls out the very systems of internal wiring from the body of a building and understands those systems a new?

Methods:
The lines of disused cables were traced into metal rod bent by hand and heat into curved templates that retained information from the original forms. Metal brazing is a technique that holds together fragments with only a fine trace of fracture, a micro-gesture of care that articulates a vulnerability. Through the process of translations from cable to drawing and drawing to metalwork, suspended in constant movement, the sculpture denies a single perspective and remains in perpetual transformation, revealing how meaning shifts through representation, acts of care and labour.

Context:
Within the context of 'Mother Curator' the hanging work 'Reenactment' occupies the gallery as bodily presence, proximate and informed by the nearby works of Rosie Morris. They read as foetal shapes in this context but without fully resolving into figuration, framing and holding other works in their open linearity as it negotiates gravity attachment and becoming. The work proposes a relationship to motherhood that is a dynamic and relational, a fragile ecology of support and balance, embodying maternal experience as movement and translation. This work aligns with embodied feminist practices and new materialism as explored in forthcoming projects with Rosie Morris.