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At once political and personal, it marks Carey's increasingly universal treatment of the modern malaise, broadening her earlier focus on the ceremonious ostentation of Middle England through her large baroque-inspired chandeliers (Untitled, 2006) made of hoover dust that was painstakingly rolled into tiny balls and then fixed to curved wire frames. Carey: 'Hoover dust is the detritus of everyday life. If you die tomorrow, all that would be left of you would be in your Hoover.
The processes involved in the creation of the work for this exhibition is equally labour intensive, some sculptures taking as long as six months to complete. However, the outcome is of breath-taking shrines that herald both the ritual of mourning and the intranscience of life, playing on the perception that traditional memorials have an opposite effect to their intent: 'There is a perversity in that once you commemorate something, it is far easier to walk away. It's not lest we forget, it's more lest we remember. Jodie Carey
The work of Jodie Carey was exhibited at Hauser and Wirth in Zurich and in the group show Anticipation, curated by Kay Saatchi at David Roberts Gallery in London. Carey graduated in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College in London in 2005 and completed her MA at the Royal College in 2007.
