Aria McInnes

I create moving image works which are influenced by moments in 20th Century cinema, fashion, art history, and celebrity culture. Envisioned as high-end productions, they are inherently restrained by a lack of budget and practical skill. A reliance on this self limiting ambition is a shameful admission in the work: faux stucco made of baby powder, acrylic, and PVA; papier-mâché materials sourced from weeks’ worth of my large wellington flat’s fish and chip dinners; dressed up, doused in baby oil and filmed in amateur porno style. A high fashion reality compiled out of a set made from household crap. Silly, sexy, flirty, yet sombre and lonely micro-fictions. Self directed produced, and styled. I employ my own shortcomings as a critical tool to consider ideas of DIY, amateurism, social and political. My best friend always told me to “dress for the job you don’t have but wish you did.”