Using quilting, weaving, and tufting, Anselma Forlano and Jorja Timms channel icky sticky emotions into a trove of curated bambino blankets, exploring a desire to run away and be queer mothers.
2 – 25 November 2022
Opening night: Thursday 3 November, 5.30-7.30pm. Free, but RSVP essential via Eventbrite.
Anselma Forlano, Jorja Timms, Child’s Prayer 2022. Courtesy the artists
Confrontation! What is this? An exploration.
Don’t look too deep. Don’t get us wrong, there is much more to be seen, but what is surface level, is all we want you to admire, what is beyond that, is far too grim to indulge in, a femme sort of suffering, a queer ideologue, an uncertain admiration, and a certain sorrow. Creating works, that you could cuddle up and cry in, we attempt to comfort ourselves with ideas of rebirth and escape.
Using quilting, weaving, and tufting, Anselma Forlano and Jorja Timms sublimate the icky sticky emotions (Insatiable horniness and unbecoming sadness) into a trove of curated bambino blankets exploring a desire to run away and be queer mothers.
Follow us on a journey through our fantasy place and practice. We have nothing but yarn, fabric, and a desperate case to plead.
About the artists
Anselma Forlano is a Melbourne based multidisciplinary artist, currently enrolled in a Masters (Fine Arts). They work with queer and Feminist Methodologies to explore themes of love, gender, shame, and absurdity. The creation of ‘practical’ or ‘functional’ objects serves as an intersection between mundanity and performative excess which becomes the artist’s artifice on which to project queered feminist narratives.
Instagram: @anselma.forlano
Jorja Timms
Instagram: @jorjatimms
