BEATRICE WALKING

Beatrice Walking

(they/them)

Artist Statement

My work for the past 7 years has used revealing aspects of the discovery of my self-history, which has a profound impact on my understanding of contemporary culture today. Abandoned at the age of 5, an unconscious separation occurred resulting in detachment from myself. After multiple partnerships in love had resulted in break-ups, I decided to try and connect with my sub-conscious and “re-attach” my self to achieve a more holistic self-awareness and fall in love with myself. I chose one vehicle for this, immersion into the art world, creating a diverse body of artwork. In the current climate where many believe their self-history has no relevance, I find myself continually returning to those aspects that are often hidden or misrepresented in the “official” recordings for posterity of my self. Ego death. In my varied and diverse approaches to making art; installations; public, curatorial and web projects, the context of the work has an impact on the work’s relationship to the viewer. My work ranges from the context of the street to museums, restaurants, to presentations of sound and our senses. Often focusing on the trappings of power and the rituals needed for it’s effect, or evoking the traditional distancing of the supplicant by those in power, giving voice to those who are often unheard, or revealing the power of language through history… with an emphasis on nature mostly. The work takes on various forms intended to draw in the viewer as co-author and witness, create new and unpredictable cycles of thoughts and associations, providing an experimental chance to challenge one’s perceptions, perspectives and assumptions with the goal to help them re-attach.