The box child

Mel Joubert

University of the West of England Bristol

The box child is an installation-based body of work exploring inherited identity: the stories, beliefs and histories we receive before we are able to question them, and how these continue to shape the way we see ourselves and the world. Developed through printmaking, photography, photomontage, artists’ books, sculpture and interactive installation, the project brings archival and personal imagery into a series of constructed objects and three interactive boxes. Each box asks a different question about seeing, shaping and becoming, inviting the viewer to participate rather than simply observe. The work considers inheritance not as something fixed, but as something we can examine, keep, resist or remake.

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