StalkHer

About

StalkHer is a visual meditation on an artist's experience of being stalked by a former lover over the course of five years. Within the walls of a gallery space the fragments of stalking are revealed as artefacts and items of curiosity, and the encounters of stalking are recreated as ‘crime-scenes’. The secretive and obsessive behaviour, driven by deluded love, in an open and public setting takes a twist of focus and repositions the gaze on to the stalker. Stalking is an intrusive and intimidating form of harassment to which this art installation is held up as a means of empowerment.

StalkHer is a way of dealing with the reality of helplessness when encountering the obsessive and uncontrollable behaviour of a stalker. It is an artist's way of reacting to a behaviour which requires ultimate “non-reaction”.

The stalker’s behaviour is explored and questioned in original artworks incorporating ink paintings with printmaking techniques that represent an emotional response of the artist to the experience of being stalked.

With this exhibition Victoria Suvoroff hopes to raise awareness to the phenomenon of the behaviour of stalking, which isn’t exclusively gendered. The artist wants the audience to understand how stalking can come in many forms, each one a form of a fixated behaviour which is repeated and persistent. It is obsessive, intrusive and unwanted.

StalkHer takes the audience on a journey with elements of surprise, curiosity and beauty as well as fury, helplessness and pain.