Preaching to the Perverted | 2016 | Metro Arts, Brisbane
Preaching to the Perverted presents a new series of sculptures and digitally mediated performances. Employing the material sensuality of Baroque sculpture and the humour of goddess ritual performance, the exhibition poetically investigates Freudian fetishism. Taking its cue from the anthropological objects in Freud’s studio, Preaching to the Perverted considers the gendered rhetoric of psychoanalytic theory via an inflation of its mythological and mystic undercurrents. By drawing attention to and re-enacting key female characters – goddesses, saints, constellations – Booth plays with the representation and omission of female sexuality and agency in Freudian discourse. These evocations speak to Booth’s fascination with depictions of female desire, sexuality and authority in a contemporary context.
Preaching to the Perverted presents a new series of sculptures and digitally mediated performances. Employing the material sensuality of Baroque sculpture and the humour of goddess ritual performance, the exhibition poetically investigates Freudian fetishism. Taking its cue from the anthropological objects in Freud’s studio, Preaching to the Perverted considers the gendered rhetoric of psychoanalytic theory via an inflation of its mythological and mystic undercurrents. By drawing attention to and re-enacting key female characters – goddesses, saints, constellations – Booth plays with the representation and omission of female sexuality and agency in Freudian discourse. These evocations speak to Booth’s fascination with depictions of female desire, sexuality and authority in a contemporary context.
