Exquisite Bodies | Bruno Booth
Quiet hour
A time for rest and slow play
In G09 3pm-4pm daily
This time of rest and slow play is for everyone needing quieter spaces, lower sensory environments, and relaxation.
Notice sounds and sensations, listen to your heart beat, watch the movement of the clouds, feel your breath rising and falling.
Bruno Booth Exquisite Bodies. Installation view, The Art Gallery of Western Australia, 2023. Photo: Louise Coghill.
About the artist
Bruno has used a wheelchair for most of his life, interrupted by a short and unsuccessful career as an amateur stilt walker when he used prosthetic legs as a child. In his memory these leather and metal devices would not have been out of place on the set of some dystopian, apocalyptic epic – not in a cool and attractive Fury Road sort of way, more like the zombies in the original Walking Dead. The experience of wearing restrictive equipment left him with a dislike of tight fitting clothing, a love of speed and a need to reach over his head in supermarkets – as a child he made the decision to use a wheelchair as his primary mode of transport – and he’s never looked back (probably because he’s too busy looking out for sand pits on dark footpaths).
Having a disability has been a constant background hum throughout Bruno’s life. Kind of like a social tinnitus – you know it’s there but you try not to talk about it. It was only when he started to call himself an artist, without cringing too much, that he began to engage critically with what it meant to be categorised as disabled.
“I can’t hide the fact that I have what society refers to as a disability. Instead, I concentrate on shaping the perceptions people have of what it means to be a disabled person. Like any other characteristic that defines a nuanced personality, disability can have positive and negative aspects. Disability is a spectrum of experiences not an automatic negation of a person’s ability, value or potential.”
Bruno Booth
Exquisite Bodies | Virtual Gallery
Exhibition Labels
Gallery 09 supported by Healthway promoting Act Belong Commit
Art connects us to ourselves, each other and our communities, helping to create a healthy Western Australia
The Exquisite Bodies interactive sculptures are made possible with the support of AGWA’s Next Collective
Exquisite Bodies is supported by The Stan Perron Charitable Foundation
