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Escape. Control. Delete.Kristie Watts
Window Gallery, Belconnen Arts Centre
Opening: 6pm Friday 7 February 2025
Exhibition: 7 February – 23 March 2025
Escape. Control. Delete.
In Australia, more than one in three women have been physically and/or sexually assaulted.
Every week a woman is murdered by her current or former partner.
Each blacked out key represents a woman in our community.
Each delete key laying on the floor represents a woman killed in the last year (2024).
Escape Control Delete is a process and conceptual based installation making the statistics of violence against women in Australia visible.
Intrinsically tied to materiality, acknowledging the power of art and visual communication.
Keyboards are an object most people look at and engage with daily, much like the visual landscape of people and places we gaze at daily. The array of blacked out keys offers an unavoidable visual representation of words heard and reports read about the increasing statistics of women in Australia affected by abuse.
The artist has recognized when engaging in topics that are triggering and emotionally laborious, an element of the process must be reparative for the project to reach completion. In this installation, the act of using plaster bandage to wrap each oversized delete key sculpture was an intentional act of artist self-care. Plaster wrap is both materially soothing and symbolic of healing and reparation.
If this topic raises concerns:
Dial 000 in an emergency
Call 1800737732 or
1800respect.org.au for support.
Reference statistics: www.ourwatch.org.au/quick-facts#key-statistics-on-violence-against-women
Learn more: www.belcoarts.com.au/escape-control-delete
Image: "Escape. Control. Delete." (detail) by Kristie Watts.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Belconnen Arts Centre, 118 Emu Bank, Belconnen, ACT, Australia, Australian Capital Territory 2617, 118 Emu Bank, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia,Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
