Growing up my mother cleaned the floors of our Church, then our kitchen, 2021
Site 8 Gallery RMIT
Off the Kerb Gallery, Collingwood
This project examines the intersection of domestic, private spaces and Western Catholic institutional spaces. The artist reflects on the influence of institutional power on the female body through the theories of feminist philosophers Elizabeth Grosz and Judith Butler, and her own anecdotal experiences of growing up in the Catholic Church. Johanna uses a new materialist lens to consider the sacred, profane dichotomy, particularly how this manifests in domestic spaces through icons, rituals and relics. The artist uses her own body, and rituals associated with the body to deconstruct and challenge patriarchal Christian notions of ritual and sacred.
Site 8 Gallery RMIT
Off the Kerb Gallery, Collingwood
This project examines the intersection of domestic, private spaces and Western Catholic institutional spaces. The artist reflects on the influence of institutional power on the female body through the theories of feminist philosophers Elizabeth Grosz and Judith Butler, and her own anecdotal experiences of growing up in the Catholic Church. Johanna uses a new materialist lens to consider the sacred, profane dichotomy, particularly how this manifests in domestic spaces through icons, rituals and relics. The artist uses her own body, and rituals associated with the body to deconstruct and challenge patriarchal Christian notions of ritual and sacred.