alienation, by Michelle Hannah

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Presenting a series of new photomontage works, this exhibition is based on the book ‘Woman on the Edge of Time’ by Marge Piercy, one of the first feminist utopian novels about a woman wrongly incarcerated in a New York mental ward in 1976 where she is visited by a time traveling gender neutral individual from the year 2137.

These visions of an excavated future are captured in framed prints and created from fragments of fashion and lifestyle magazines; where pages are torn, ripped and cut into new esoteric meanings of consumer capitalism through the means of digital collage. The installation of alienation, with its looped ambient music piece recorded in hospital waiting rooms, takes influence from this physical ‘surface’ of photography through the alien self, techno-feminism and unknown planetary landscapes.