You’re Being Irrational

You’re Being Irrational is a 3-channel large-scale video installation examining subjective mental microaggressions. The work portrays looped intimate fragments of a partially abstracted female body, exhibiting slight motion. These micro instances of motion, when compounded, expose analogously disquiet mental states. In this way, You’re Being Irrational borrows from theories of racial and gender microaggressions by positing an analogous notion of subjective mental microaggressions. Skin and subtle movement become the site for exploring aggregated internal disquietudes. The title references the extensive and troubling tradition that interprets internal disquietudes as a form of irrationality when paired with the female gender and femininity. The concept of fragmentation plays a key role in this work. Fragmented time, fragments of a body, a fragmented perception of identity, all influenced by a personal history of a fragmented geography. It is the aggregate of these fragments that deepen the experience of destabilization and mimic the subjective experience of consistent and persistent mental disquietudes.