This article, reviewing ‘Step Motherfucker’, gives insight into Ekblad’s methods of experimenting with materiality to understand her visceral artworks and discuss the works descriptively, so the reader can experience the effect of the exhibition. Davies analyses three key works to extract overarching themes – which include femininity and ephemeral identity.
The article provides a useful evaluation on the material Ekblad utilizes to add meaning to her artworks. Ekblad collects items from the street and households – particularly for the title piece. ‘Step Motherfucker’ is a woman figure assembled from welded metal, teapots and other items on a painting acting as a carpet. Using these materials, notions of female gender are questioned. Whereas,