Kelly Jessiman

I am interested in today’s society. In particular how every human being ‘participates’ in a culture, describe by its customs, habits, beliefs, values, behavior and material habits. In my work I question and ‘challenge’ social conventions and order.
I make working objects for my films these objects sit in and construct a particular reality not to far from our own.
I explored using the everyday ritual of eating with objects. I felt that the knife, fork and spoon are a good example of our society. These implements are the disconnection between the mouth and the food, the action of eating
The table I built not only becomes a sculptural metaphor to position the body in relation to space and other objects and people but also takes on the symbolic weight of the collective – society and community – it points at a constructed set of rules that is invisibly and visibly embedded in our daily routines, actions and thoughts.
The film is an emotive way of encountering the objects and actions as well as a way of setting up a particular kind of ‘hyper-reality’.