Emma Greeff

My work presents a series of altered objects which engage the viewer in conflicting emotions of familiarity and alienation. I have transformed familiar, every-day, domestic objects such as hairbrushes and tea towels to suggest the foreign, threatening and potentially dangerous. The work questions the underlying social categories around which our daily domestic routines are ordered. Domestic objects can be used to represent the home while at the same time disturbing our sense of home and belonging. In turn the home also represents the nation at large and can similarly disrupt our sense of national inclusion. In this work I propose the instability of categorization by questioning the familiar.