A Lash On The Cheek

Manon Buskes (1995) is a visual artist working with installation, text, performance, sound, and sculpture. She creates settings in which she visualizes the fragmentary character of memory and conversation.

In A Lash On The Cheek (fade out) she juxtaposes sculpture, found objects, the Pet Shop Boys pop song What Have I Done To Deserve This, and field recordings in an installation. Sculptures, rectangular and soft, layered with plaster, wax, and latex. Drapes made out of latex rubber conceal a scene whilst at the same time revealing it.

The objects look intimate, but their sculptural handling makes them uncomfortable. Through layering the objects become estranged, and take on a second existence beyond their original status.

The installation is a meeting place for mental associations. Manon uses and performs different sources of text as monologues that appear to be private. She explores the human desire to turn feelings in to a creation of words. Fragments of text, sculptural objects, and sounds are collected into a temporary whole, albeit filled with holes.