Negotiated Study 1

Tuesday, 4 June 2013

Gallery Proposal

Proposal for Exhibition at Grande’s Café and Gallery

Photography by: Tabitha Mann

Proposed Title: Dissociation

Proposed date: Early June 2013

Dear Laura Grande,

I aim to exhibit my photographic series Dissociation as a solo show in June 2013, utilising your gallery wall. The series compromising of five photographs will be hung framed. The frames are sized at 50cm x 40cm, works will be untitled and numbered.

Installation requirements

Hooks to be attached to the skirting board and to the back of the frames and wire for hanging.

catalog and Artist Statement

Grande’s Café and Gallery

On the lawns in Manuka

Tabitha Mann | Dissociation

Untitled one

Untitled two

Untitled three

Untitled four

Untitled five $200 each

Artist Statement

At last, we are now in our twenties, our teenage self is long dead and our long awaited adulthood has arrived! Or so we thought…

At home, at Uni, at work or in our relationships we feel restless and lash out. In dissociation I have used fashion as a way to investigate this identity crisis; we embellish ourselves and have pink hair to discover who we are.

Whether the expectations we feel are from ourselves or other people the pressure seems too much to bare in this period of our life. We yearn for our free of responsibility childhood and become stuck in ‘what’s next?’

Dissociation is a small series that explores the quarter life crisis; this transition period between Teen and Adult. We thought we worked out who we were as teenagers but apparently there’s much more to learn.