Rowan Thomson
Container
“A border is a dividing line, a narrow strip along a steep edge. A borderland is a vague and undetermined place created by the emotional residue of an unnatural boundary. It is in a constant state of transition. The prohibited and forbidden are its inhabitants.”
Container contends with the legibility and boundaries of social, bodily, and material identity through self-portraiture from the confines of a mylar-mirrored cube.
Traversing binaries of digital and analogue, representation and abstraction, bordered and borderless, the works consider that which evades neatly bounded definitions: the in-between, the ambiguous, the abject, the excessive, the queer.
