Good Girls Belong in the Kitchen
Good Girls Belong in the Kitchen Installation
Exhibition at VCA Art Grad Show 2025
Martyn Myer Arena, VCA, Southbank, Naarm/Melbourne
24 November - 4 December 2025
I am interested in taking back the space stolen by the patriarchy. It’s time to be big, bold and unapologetic. No more being minimised and silenced in fear for my safety whilst I continue to navigate the world in a femme body.
In this work, my body and lived experience becomes the protagonist performing a series of characters captured with moving image and photography. These characters perform only for themselves, eccentric, exaggerated and completely unfiltered. Bella, who is reminiscent of a “trad wife” in cooking demonstration, her role, destroying fruit for pleasure. Joined by Bellanana, who is adorned in a banana costume, and with absolute disgust, forces herself to cannibalistically eat a banana. Despite radiating glam, their costumes, odd facial expressions and cheeky attitudes disrupt traditional portraiture and bring a humour and absurdity to the work.
They are performance works but in a way they are more self-portraits, fragments of myself exaggerated through play. These characters are bizarre, over the top, take up space and definitely deserve to be there.
