Anastasia Booth Residency Blog
In the studio: A man that didn't have betrayal in his heart
This webpage will be continuously updated as Anastasia Booth’s 9-week residency progresses, detailing the artistic process both in inspiration and prompt, as well as the manner in which these influences are translated into works.
In practice, this resembles a mood board or continuous image scroll.
This webpage contains content that some may view as sexually suggestive.
A man that didn’t have betrayal in his heart 2025 amasses newly developed sculptural assemblage and brings it forward into the gallery for display and critical examination. Harkening back to a younger me, these works reconstruct engagements in erotic scenario. Capricious and foolish longing, kink gone awry and where the toil of sensuality – its unpronounced labour – is a submission to melancholy. Instead of using erotic abstraction to reclaim intimacy, these sculptures revel in the makers floundering inadequacy (anxious and self-aware). Drawing from minimalism, love hotel interiors, industrial materials, kink environments, classical statuary, ball gags, medieval torture devices, fetishism and diaristic modes of confession. Such an amalgamation of stimuli manifests into a paracosm – an internal topology of the desiring self. A decidedly strange BDSM realm of liminality, fluidity and ambiguity built on the legacy of American and Australian post-fetish sculpture and installation practice. One that contemporises sub-cultural methods, to advocate for erotic appetites that are unsure, despondent and in flux. Sculptural tableau is poetic simulation, denoting: scene, body, apparatus, arousal and the dissolution of the self after orgasm.
