Pressing Topics addresses contemporary issues of gender socialisation and equity within the transglobal workforce. The Ironing Maidens have transformed domestic materials and equipment, including irons and ironing boards, into sculptures, installations, and substrates for projection-mapping. These works collectively form an immersive sensory experience, subverting concepts of domestic labour, technology and gender.
The works are largely conceptualised through a glitch-feminist lens. A term coined by Legacy Russell, glitch feminism uses the notion of the digital error to interrupt existing social structures, including the patriarchy and capitalism, to imagine new worlds.
“I am busting to get onto the next work, a new world, the next question… what does a non-binary, de-capitalised, de-colonialised world look and sound like?”
- Melania Jack, 2022
Pressing Topics will feature four installations, including an exciting new site-specific work in Umbrella’s Vault space.