Feed Me
Rachel Maclean’s fiction takes fairy tales and horror films as a point of departure for exploring the collective unconscious. After having written the screenplay and chosen all the scenery for Feed me, the artist shot a series of characters that she interpreted herself in an impressive exercise of transformations. The film features an innocent little girl, fantastical monsters and a devious Pygmalion in what seems like a golden age. But things quickly degenerate into the commercial exploitation and sexualization of childhood, and the indulgence of every desire. At the same time, the artist lambasts adulthood, unable to resist the infantilization of its tastes and behaviours. Rachel Maclean uses a saturation of aesthetics designed to fascinate, but the eye can still detect the bitter portrait of a greedy and treacherous society hiding behind the excessive cuteness of the emojis.
Exhibitions
Talbot Rice Gallery, Édimbourg (Royaume-Uni)
from 12 Feb to 08 May 2016
Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds (Royaume-Uni)
from 09 Oct 2015 to 10 Jan 2016
Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Norwich (Royaume-Uni)
from 24 Jun to 04 Sep 0016