FabWicinski

Motherly and Otherly

Reclamation of the Female Narrative & Other Unfinished Business

FabWicinski M.O

As Quiet As A Mouse

Absence, be Presence. Fear be Bravery. Silence be Sound. Failure be Fortitude. Rage be Reason. Man be Woman.

My method alludes to archaeological practice, some stereo-typifycations of identity - such as woman, the storyteller, seer, temptress, instigator & ‘troublemaker’. By embedding artefacts and playing on themes, I’m asking ‘what do I know’? What variables validate one narrative & dismiss an other?

I gather from my surroundings, as a child wandering, locating, sensing. Forming through journey, process, bodies of work that hold gathered, storied elements. Making links to my surroundings, circumstances & innate matriarchal, feminine agency with the man-made. My use of traditional techniques are subverted, sewn, wrapped, warped, fixed, offered-up. They’re a bit like ‘making trouble’ - with material & matter and a form of dialogue through it. I seek to push & pull, drawing in past, assumed pasts, layers, possibilities, limitations & ‘imagined futures’. I work to satisfy ideas, to reach out, to embrace & sense in the detail - as there’s always more revealed than we can truly reckon with. There lies ‘troubled’ elements, otherness, that alludes to recurring, altered narrative. Otherness, controlled via assumed powers, a disassociation from which is through piecing together in the storied world. Otherness can appear as the trouble, faults, cracks, marks, link’s made as a building narrative around themes of abuse, entrapment & recovery. By engaging in the making, connecting I find presence there - energy, meaning, reclaiming & reinvesting with the trouble - to create consolidated forms, or bodies, which hold that trouble & stay with it.

When I make, I sense the trouble. Making as a subversive potent tool for change, alteration, transformation. Making as connecting, ancestral, contemporary & abstracted, it provides a way in & develops a meaningful dialogue on many levels. Artists & Intellectuals I learn from, find a way to intersect creatively, expansively & radically, challenging the context & meaning of what remains, what is fact, what is believed, what is remembered or enacted - Haraway, Beard, Maslow, Bourgeois, Emin, Belmer, Dali, Horn, Warhol, Deller, Parker, Brownsword, Perry, Bowie, AFX, Bjork, Eno - all offer ways to approach & to process alternatively, challenging what is. For me, it is that, creativity is a tool, to bring forth a reckoning, a summing up - accounting, deliberating, deconstructing, destroying, rebuilding, remaking, resolving, bearing and unifying with the trouble, in the making. An expression of otherness is always at play, often against the systems at work, challenging them to ally differently, to expand, to encompass, to blow things up to a broader view. Whilst I am at play against constraints, tensions, limits, the possibilities or discoveries push for change, for seeking an altered state. A fresh perspective. My current view focuses on loss and a sense of corrupted powers. I am a childless mother. My child was ‘removed‘ from me. I feel rage, injustice, more other than mother. My role & rights were removed from me, as were my child‘s. This gave way to so much more than trouble, it rerouted truth, trust, history. It isolated, disconnected, silenced, traumatised & condemned. When asking for protection we recieved blame. My work now aims to reclaim that narrative, removal & loss, to form a voice, a place, a space to begin positing an alternative view & release & realise tensions. I work in a meta context, speaking of otherness, relating to other means, Fragments, histories, stories, lores, reclaimed, embedded in narrative bodies of mother, maker & other.

Entrapment/Escape 2008

F.M.P 2009

What Remains Final Project 2012