Being nice will kill you

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Macrame cord and nylon fabric 

Drawing on personal experiences and academic background the piece delivers a powerful message bringing to the audience's attention the link between stress and illness. Purposefully employing the laborious macrame textile technique mirroring the undervalued domestic labour and urges its recognition and status in the society. Multilayered knots represent the complexities, connections between fields, experiences and data, as well as a trap women find themselves in. The colour red represents the sacrifice care givers and home makers often must suffer as a part of the social role and expectations placed on them. The artwork is intentionally displayed in the basement portraying the depth of human psyche as a metaphor of denial and refusal to confront the issue, consequently pushing it down to unconscious. 

In the memory of my mother