Zammit’s creative arts research to date interrogates self-representation through synthesising painting, the body, and performing objects. Using her own body as subject and material, an interdisciplinary process is explored which hybridises theatrical performance, anthropomorphic (performing) objects, GIF making, and painting.
Painting the Erotic Performing Object and I (2021)
Through staging the body with erotic performing objects in performance, a co-presence and understanding is established between the quasi-animism of performing objects and the animism of the human body. These works explore an embodied experience of cultural eroticisation. By painting this interaction, this process is separated from traditional methods of performance documentation.
Intimate Abstraction series (2020)
These paintings are formally abstract but linger on the verge of biomorphism. Through their just larger than life scale, the paintings retain a performativity. In this way, they become autobiographical remnants of my body, as well as formally referencing bodily shapes.
Ambiguous erotic series (2020)
This series of paintings seek to explore the blurred lines between figurative and abstract representations of the body, by eroticising paint. I attempt to keep these images ambiguous in the absence of any figurative bodies, but also sensual enough that one could identify it as bodily.
Reimagining Jeffrey Silverthorne's 'Morgue Series' (2020)
This set of paintings investigate a lifeless form or implications of the body as object. In these paintings I have reanimated selected photographs from Jeffrey Silverthorne’s ‘Morgue Series’ from the 1970s. My own works of art aim to inject liveliness back into Silverthorne’s images of death.
Untitled series (2019)
These works investigate a fusion between intrigue and disgust, pushing the viewer to a place which is unrecognisable and uncomfortable. The works possess erotic undertones, flaunting a sexuality which isn’t descriptive within the work.
