Unbridled Abundance: Pink Bits ‘n’ Saggy Tits, 2021
Abbotsford Convent
Unbridled Abundance: Pink Bits ‘n’ Saggy Tits confronts the ageing female body head on, presenting a dramatically over-sized pair of breasts and vagina, exposed between bent, spread legs. Responding to the semi-industrial scale of the Abbotsford Convent laundry, giant breasts hang from high beams, sagging onto the floor as ‘multiple icing pours [create] a sugary topography of wrinkles, folds, cracks and creases that set afloat two intricately piped nipples.’ Beside them, a vast pubis complete with a grizzled thatch of pubic hair – long, grey and untamed – echoes the enormous 1966 sculpture, Hon: a Cathedral – a collaboration between Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean Tinguely and Per Olof Ultvedt. In Unbridled Abundance: Pink Bits ‘n’ Saggy Tits, the private becomes public, the personal becomes political, and exaggerated to the extent that it can no longer be ignored and in a material that is delicious, reality is transformed, becoming humorous and something that can be talked about, no longer as daunting as it might have once seemed.
