The late artist grieved through her work for her mother,who died of ovarian cancer three years before the same disease claimed Cavaliere herself. A retrospective that’s allotment of Mofo festival features her obsession with childhood and documenting herselfThrough her work, Katthy Cavaliere grieved for her mother. A 2010 video called nest features the Australian artist sitting atop a pile of her mother’s clothes and looking pensively out to sea; an homage to how the pair would often visit Clovelly beach in Sydney, or to chat and eat fish and chips. She wears her mother’s stockings on her head (and nothing else) and seagulls ominously circle her in the air,like fallen angels.
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Source: theguardian.com