A Slight Nausea: An Interior

'A Slight Nausea', a new live work by Becky Beasley, was a purposely designed décor which traced her interest in the relationship between literary images and interiors. Evolving over four weekends in January, visitors were invited to spend time in the space.

Beasley uses this quote by Italian polymath Carlo Mollino to invoke the work, A Slight Nausea:
"If I were left alone I wouldn’t move a single chair; the interior is the most 'neutral' I could wish for: it doesn’t disturb me, it doesn’t wrongly excite me, but it leaves me free to be alone with my imagination, we might called it my inner landscape, one which gives a certain tone to everything. But there does remain a perceptible on-going sense of slight nausea necessary to prevent acceptance, comfort."

The interior underwent four subtle lighting changes, varying each weekend. The décor incorporated a linoleum revolving newspaper racks containing weekend newspapers, take away copies of Carlo Mollino’s essay on interiors, Utopia & Setting, and ring binders containing photocopies of Beasley's archive of newspaper cuttings, A Little History of The Interior: A Personal Archive (1994-2014).

The project was explored in a conversation between the artist and the SLG's Associate Curator Anna Gritz on Wednesday 29 January. Please note A Slight Nausea was de-installed after 26 January, in advance of the talk.