Voyeurism examined
"I'm responding to the deluge of reality television programmes. I have chosen to isolate a particular genre within that which is obese people, and often they're paraded in front of the screen. It's all like the shock of the spectacle of the flesh, and so I've used this as a way of critiquing reality television.
"I created three characters, Beryl, her son Raymond, and then I introduce a character in a stop motion film called Raylene. They all mirror aspects of strategies that are used in reality television to shame people and the spectacle of looking at other people's lives and judging them.
"It's a vehicle to get my message across, and I want it to create a space where in actual fact when you walk away you pause and you think about what did that strangeness mean, what was it that I was trying to communicate with you. And I’m hoping that people will step away from it and reflect and move past the humour, but I also want people to feel the magic of it. Like sometimes I think art should be a little bit magic."
Kiri was supervised by Jane Venis and Michele Beevors. Read more about the Master of Fine Arts programme here.