Title: Tainted Love.
Authors: Thomas, Charlotte Warne
Abstract: The video Tainted Love (2023) consists of scenes shot in a gold refinery, juxtaposed with clips of a squirming maternal body, overlaid with definitions of love (from Lomas' lexicography – Provisional list; 2021). It offers a meditation on the value of love in a capitalist system obsessed with profit and commodification, calling into question the value assigned to different modes of production. The unquantifiable value of caring for loved ones contrasts with the solidity of gold – a material with a long history of use in jewellery and talismans associated with love, betrothal and devotion. The text explores links between the invisible labour of familial caring, love and nurture and the concept of emotional labour with reference to Alva Gotby (2023) and the emerging concept of the 'motherload'.
Subjects: BETROTHAL; ZOSTERA marina; COMMODIFICATION; LEXICOGRAPHY; JEWELRY
Publication: Studies in the Maternal (Mamsie), 2024, Vol 14, Issue 1, p1
ISSN: 1759-0434
Publication type: Academic Journal
DOI: 10.16995/sim.11758

Tainted Love.

Thomas, Charlotte Warne