Olivia Tripp Morrow
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Body Like A Cage
(2021)

Body Like A Cage
2021
Single channel video

5 min 51 sec

This piece was created during a week-long artist residency called SoloLab 545 at VisArts (Rockville, MD) in December 2020. For this residency, I was invited to use a gallery space to create a work of art that incorporated performance as a medium. In this short video performance, I reflect on my experience living with scoliosis, how this spine deformity affected me as a girl and woman, and some of the fears around what my life would be like after the corrective surgery.

The set itself is densely packed with materials of significance: drawings/embroideries on the wall that depict still-images from my spinal fusion surgery; an old ballet costume from childhood hanging next to a model spine; a full length mirror which is used in the performance to continually check my body, and which at various times throughout the performance references the future or past; extruded ceramic sculptures, which are painted red and textured to look like bloody, twisted bones. Additionally, a circle of drawn charcoal visually displays the physical limitations of my body after the surgery. Within the charcoal circle, fragments of documentation appear and disappear as I reflect on distant and more recent memories of feeling trapped in my physical body, which has always felt like a cage of its own. 
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    • 2D Works >
      • Monotypes
      • Embroidery
      • Drawing & Painting
      • Nine Patch Series, 2018
      • Collage, 2019
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      • Ceramic Sculpture, 2021
      • Wood Constructions, 2019 - 2020
      • Altered Blanket Series, 2018-19
      • Untitled Pedestals, 2018
      • Ribbon House, 2018
      • ROYGBIV, 2017
      • Gradient Series, 2017
      • Stretch, 2015 - 2018
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      • Porcelain Towers, 2021
      • Body Like A Cage, 2021
      • Crochet II, 2017
    • Solo & Two-Person Exhibitions >
      • Body Joy Cage Scar
      • Within/Between, 2018
      • Nine Patch, 2018
      • Gradient, 2017
      • Feminicity, 2017
      • Skin Contention, 2013
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