Marcel Davie, 2026
for Open World, Pari, Parramatta
for Open World, Pari, Parramatta
Documentation by Document Photography
Mixed Media Installation (acrylic painting, black satin plushies, clay foam beaded charms, polymer clay sculptures, foam figures), Website
https://marcel-davie.neocities.org/
Based on my final honours work, the final iteration of the project includes a remade painting, hanging charms, and black satin rabbit/trash bag sculptures.
As queer and trans experience is spoken of in relation to others, I ask myself “Am I still queer when I lie alone in bed at night?” Made in response to these night time ruminations, Marcel Davie is an exploration of the errant thoughts, words and feelings that have surfaced from this introspection.
Keychains, plushies, naive forms and pieces of childhood become anchors in this self-reflection; Comforting but unapproachable, soft and spiky, abstract and hard, avoidant and elusive, veiled and safe. Archiving these objects along with words and pictures in the form of a website, the fragments sit suspended in digital darkness- stuck in space and time for stories to form between them. Influenced by the Web 1.0
practices of personal blogging and digital shrine making, I carve out a solitary space for my work to sit in quiet meditation.