Jennifer Cunningham

Cunningham is particularly interested in amusement parks that have suffered from, or succumbed to, neglect in recent years. The leisure ground is a heterotopic space, ref: Michel Foucault, suggesting a limitless world of adventures where people temporarily experience certain formulations of utopia. For many, these are nostalgic places; they spark off a range of associations and images, of feelings and senses. She is interested in that nostalgia and will produce a series of large- scale mixed-media drawings documenting these strange other worlds.

Cunningham’s practice is anchored between the parameters of self and becoming self-aware. It also deals with our surroundings peripheral zones and how familiar environments appear slightly unsettling or eerie to us. Central to her work is an ongoing exploration of identity, liminal space and personal subjectivity.