Tag: confessional art

Lottie Consalvo, ‘I mouthed I love you’ (Part 2 ‘If I could change this time’ series), 2014, Lake Macquarie Gallery

“The artist mouths ‘I love you’ backwards, silently and repetitively. Through this simple action this performance attempts to relive a moment prior to a great loss.There is a broken chair and table and a flight of butterflies lay upon the table unmoving, dead.The butterfly has an average lifespan of two weeks. The experience of witnessing a butterfly in flight is akin to its very existence; beautiful yet fleeting.In this work the artist is recalling a temporal fragment of a private tragedy.Contemplating regret and the futility of a moment now passed. There are some actions that cannot be undone. Longing and failure are present within this performance as splinters and fractures of something that is too difficult to comprehend.“