Unearthly Remains

Unearthly Remains is a reaction towards death and loss through an exploration of domestic objects that have been passed on over generations. I approach the objects from a psychological point of view, focusing on their uncanny ability to transcend their physicality into a spiritual realm fueled by their connection to the past. I investigate my imaginative relationship to these possessions, and employ ritualistic obsession and fetishism that results in highly personal arrangements. Like a taxidermist who arranges carcasses into gruesome “life-like” tableaus, I take the shells of dead items and bring them back to life through surreal and bizarre theatrics. The work functions as a coming-to-terms with mourning, loss and the inevitability of death, as much as it rejects the passage of time through the re-animation of dead forms. My work straddles a line between modern memento mori or vanitas – reminders of death and material decay, and anti-vanitas – denials of death and the rejection of the passage of time.



keren@kerenmoscovitch.com