Contact: nataliehapeshi@gmail.com

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My practice focuses on the domestic environment in which I live and share with seven other people. I am exploring the consequences and implications of living with such a high number of other bodies, and how our routines and habits adjust and adapt in the context of others. The work scrutinises the forms of acts and motions that occur when multiple bodies are present together in a confined space, looking at specific isolated parts of the body of these multiples. The role of everyday domestic objects within this space is also a subject of investigation, and how our bodies interact with them on daily basis unconsciously and habitually. Allan Kaprow’s notions of ‘living life consciously’ are to form a framework for my practice, where when under scrutiny supposedly commonplace actions, routines and interactions become abstract and conceptually surreal.

I am also intrigued by the role of technological forms of communication within the living environment, where multiple people may be present in one space however we will still resort to technology as a means of entertainment, communicating with others through these devices rather than the others in our immediate environment. Through my work I intend to combine the technological and physical; producing new modes of interaction within the domestic space that challenge the dominating digital forms of communication, promoting a new form of intimacy.