BEIGE-NESS (2022)

Found objects, upholstery fabric, thread, glue, cardboard, wood, wire, foam, PET fill

Dimensions vary

Beige-ness is a soft sculpture installation and photo series. It acts as a representation of cleanliness, neatness and the oppressiveness of tidying up.

The work explores the similarities between how we organise our spaces and how we organise our bodies. It is a representation of the capitalist utilisation of cleanliness to oppress and segregate communities, bombarding us with ever desirable images of tidiness, happiness and success, uplifting those who have the power to be ‘tidy’ and pushing those of us who are dirty or messy further and further away from these symbols of success and productivity.

Beige-ness is at once a soft and satisfying space, as well as an uncanny collection of the suffocatingly beige. It recreates the uncomfortable capitalist space that suggests that anyone can buy their way in to neatness and success, while simultaneously excluding communities by upholding carefully coded symbols of wealth and class.