Sadie Whelan

Sadie Whelan's practice has a playful, slippery, and contingent attitude that challenges formal aesthetic hierarchies. She is interested in things that are ad-hoc, off-kilter and deviant, and has a magpie thing going on for trashy, disheveled, and femme materiality. Her assemblages complicate superimposed object-history relationships by remixing the formal properties of materials with their colloquial/cultural associations. The fragmentary, disobedient, and gurlesque nature of her work speaks to hybrid identities, about unfixed and ungovernable bodies, and the impossible neat boxing up of things.