Gallagher, Clare

English

This was a short residency at PS2 to facilitate a more experimental approach to working with video. The residency took the form of an exhibition which was open to the public. It comprised five large projections of video sequences of kitchen sink blockages with swirling debris. Public engagement was useful in building a discourse around the nature of cooking and cleaning, disgust and beauty

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It Clings to Me Like a LeechClare GalagherPS2 Spencer HouseRoyal AvenueOpening 6-8pm Thursday 9th MayIt Clings To Me Like a Leech is new video work concerned with the second shift - the term given to the hidden shift of housework and childcare primarily carried out by women on top of their paid employment. It is physical, mental and emotional labour which demands efort, skil and time but is unpaid, unaccounted for, unequaly distributed and largely unrecognised. Hidden in plain sight and veiled by familiarity and insignificance, the second shift is largely absent from representations of home and family. This work is an attempt to recognise the complexity and value of this invisible work; it is also a cal for resistance to the systems which ignore it.‘Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition. The clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.’       de Beauvoir

It Clings to Me Like a Leech

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It Clings to Me Like a Leech

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