Flo Bracey makes art that feels accidental, more material evidence in a crime scene than an art object.
These artefacts or remnants are found in our current age, one of disparity, tech bleeds, germs, love & despair. She creates work with a fragile existence, walking the line between construction and destruction.
The works are involved in remix culture - referencing Lucozade, Monster Munch, iPhones or mumble-core lyrics - rendered in materials along the scale of mudlarking to amazon prime. Rust and Decay is juxtaposed with mass production and the relentless presence of plastic.
Folklore exists as the vernacular web; Bracey’s work is a-temporal, not holding nostalgia for the past, or speculation about the future - instead looking down at their own feet.
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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