Aspiration

Aspiration considers the desire to become, possess or appear to be something more. Ordinary, discarded or damaged materials are polished, gilded, enlarged or made permanent, becoming better and more valuable versions of themselves. These transformations draw on working-class histories of self-fashioning, home improvement and social mobility, while revealing how unstable value and belonging can be. The work does not mock aspiration or treat it as false consciousness. It asks what these desires make possible, what pressures they create, and why wanting beauty, status or cultural participation is judged differently depending on who is doing the wanting.

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