Mavis C. Pitman Exhibition 2022

ALISSA KONO

Welcome to your Pity Party. You are the only guest in attendance, so allow yourself to sit down, look in the mirror, and indulge in feeling sorry for yourself.

Pity Party is an installation that seeks to highlight the shared experience of wallowing in self-pity. Attending a somber “party-for-one,” each visitor enters amongst droopy balloons and watches themselves in a mirror. The installation pokes fun at how we seek solace in negativity and celebrate our sorrows. Furthermore, in the context of the global pandemic, the space also replicates the restrictions of physical isolation on social connections and support networks – hinting at how self-pity can serve as a small taste of compassion and understanding in periods of loneliness.
 

Alissa Kono
Pity Party, 2022
Mixed media

Advisor: Lisa Lapinski

Image of mirrored wall with pathway lined with paper ballons by Alissa Kono

TIED IN NOTS
Mavis C. Pitman Exhibition 2022

The Mavis C. Pitman Exhibition has been underwritten by the Mavis C. Pitman Endowment and the Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts.