Flo Bracey’s primary mediums are earth, ties and bricks, often using text or found/stolen drawings, such as modern or ancient graffitti, like the drawings on the ceiling of the crypt her granny used to work in. She carves words out of material (clay, paper, stone) as if she is excavating something which has always been in there.
She considers her work as evidence, rather than a product.
Her text based works appear Stuck on the Cusp of temporality - as fragile un-formed thoughts - often rendered in mediums which can be created then swept away, dissolved in water or evaporate in the sun.
She is a member of alt-pop duo Marraige Banxxxd together with Rowan Bazley.
In their collaborative writing process for Marriage Banxxxd, Flo and Rowan make a conceptual stand to take seriously verbal mistakes, misheard speech or silly lyrical delivery, with the aim of transcending language through music while still getting into the minutiae of how we speak and relate to one another. There is a certain nihilistic nihilism which is to say, the music does not want to be understood, nor do the musicians attempt to understand the song themselves. This rejection of comprehension in the words of Sean Scully, “resist(s) the deadening ambition of the modern world to control everything” (Scully 1995, in Inner, p. 37.) Flo and Rowan curated an exhibition together titled Traffic! Like I have a Car which was heavily influenced by Marraige Banxxxd.
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