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Designer, Illustrator and Co-Founder of Cherry Pop

Ása Valdimarsdóttir

At a funeral reception, a grieving family attempts to commemorate a relative’s troublesome life. Overwhelmed by a torrent of sharp feeling, unexpected secrets, sealed frustration and forbidden loves agitatedly reveal themselves; and the family for better or for worse, is reborn.

This interdisciplinary piece explores family networks distorted by obsession, discontent confrontation and sexual abuse. Drawing from a variety of family-based dramas, the production engages with veiled relationships manifested in a pictorial symbolism. Through physicality, live music and text, a compositional story emerges, which debates family values and the damaging limits of our behaviour.

Investigating, as its starting point, the idea that family is a system of inherited mechanisms, this devised piece further delves into the notion of identity understood as a construction. It problematizes the concepts of identity and subjectivity, and asks whether the constructed self isn’t inextricably born of our familial inter-relationships, and why an individual might choose to adopt or refute a facade of normality in search of their identity. Confronting our inherited legacy is the generative theme of the piece, spanning from the personal to the universal and collective unconscious.





Black Tie - Graduation Project 2021