1 - 25 FEBRUARY 2023
FELTDARK

AMANDA WOLF
WELCOME TO THE RAT'S NEST

Amanda Wolf is a contemporary artist that works across performance video and soft sculpture to investigate the body in states of play, indulgence, and transformation. Using costume to inhabit alternative fantasy bodies, Wolf reimagines private rituals and gestures of communal bonding as theatrical, sensual, and comic. Humour features heavily in their work as a language of subversion, providing an expanded dialogue surrounding identity and the complicated nature of desire.

Welcome to the Rat’s Nest is an adventure down the rat hole into a kink fantasyland dripping in chains and cheese.Wolf transforms into their bratty rodent alter-ego on a hedonist’s journey that conjures the intoxicating lure of the trap and the perverse desire to be captured. Drawing from ongoing explorations of masking, role play, and the carnivalesque body, Welcome to the Rat’s Nest serves as an imaginary plane in which to contemplate the power of fantasy and community and revel in the blurred boundaries of pleasure, pain, and excess.

Installation Photography: Brianna Speight
Other images: Amanda Wolf, Welcome to the Rat's Nest (2022) production still.