For the Temple: Ortive Fundament | 2017 | Metro Arts, Brisbane
For the Temple investigates female agency through personal narrative, mysticism, astrology and mythology. Gesturing towards her interest in using the materials from fetish wear Booth’s new banner sculptures use leather and chain to evoke the abstract compositions of Hilma af Klint and the astrological entities – the moon and the Pleiades – used to date Sappho’s Midnight Poem. The exhibition space will play host to the final performance of Ortive Fundament. This ritual plays with the phallic in Freudian theories through the adoption of the female mythological figures found in his study.
For the Temple investigates female agency through personal narrative, mysticism, astrology and mythology. Gesturing towards her interest in using the materials from fetish wear Booth’s new banner sculptures use leather and chain to evoke the abstract compositions of Hilma af Klint and the astrological entities – the moon and the Pleiades – used to date Sappho’s Midnight Poem. The exhibition space will play host to the final performance of Ortive Fundament. This ritual plays with the phallic in Freudian theories through the adoption of the female mythological figures found in his study.
