The work of Trulee Grace Hall seeks to externalize the self's unconscious attempts to protect itself from intolerable thoughts and emotions. Through video, installation and performance, she exaggerates acts of regression and transference, revealing compulsive, failing attempts of the self to ignore the world and its dangers. She brings homemade, makeshift environments to life with histrionic characters, representing defensive adaptation strategies that typify a loss of distinction between subject and object, self and other.
Hall brings to our attention the ways that relationships are dictated by blurred distinctions between "real" and unreal. Her preoccupation with the visual, the make-believe, the construct is demonstrated by her fabricated imitations and dissimulations in various media. While parodying and dissecting conventional components of narrative cinema and television culture, her work requires the viewer to string together fragments of place, and pieces of personae, which in their multiplicities never become whole.
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