CHEST REVEAL

Open 24/7

@ you’re okay by Brand X

119 Bathurst St, Sydney

Performance video, sculptural elements

Chest Reveal centres on the slow erasure of a wax cast taken from my pre-mastectomy chest. Where surgery altered my body seemingly in an instant, this work allows me to revisit that transformation in a tangible way, at a pace I can control. Each movement simultaneously erases the wax and leaves behind scar-like lines that echo the marks of surgery.

The video forms the core of this window installation, accompanied by remnants of wax, silicone impressions, and the original mould used to form the cast. Together, these materials extend the performance into the physical space, offering multiple traces of what has been lost, carried, and transformed.

Chest Reveal considers transition as an ongoing, layered process rather than a single event, holding both past and present versions of myself in the same frame.