The Body in Time and Place

Through symbolic action Becky Bowley’s work evokes the relationship between the body and time through the medium of traditional making and the movement of the body within a place. Her interest lies in poetical dialogues between the memory and imagination of human feeling and experiences becoming a dynamic image of the mythical. Materials are composed as symbols of the elements that resonate with impermanence and hint at transformation - to move the body within time and place “To cross a territory, to walk, to open a path, to recognise a place, to comprehend symbolic values, to invent a geography”5.

Bibliography

References:

1. Bachelard, Gaston, "the Poetics of Space", p18, France, 1969.

2. Careri, Francesco, "Walkscapes, Walking as an Aesthetic Practice", P23, Barcelona, 2002.

3. Bachelard, Gaston, "the Poetics of Space", p57, France, 1969.

4. Careri, Francesco, Matta-Clark, Gordon, "Walkscapes, Walking as an Aesthetic Practice", P13, Barcelona, 2002.

5. Careri, Francesco, "Walkscapes, Walking as an Aesthetic Practice", P18, Barcelona, 2002.







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