Amy McNamara
Restless Retail
Restless Retail is a live performance and installation that imagines self-doubt as a product to be packaged and sold. Set up like a typical market stall, I take on the overly polished persona, offering products like Maybe-Not Moisturiser and Shame Polish while simultaneously insisting that no one actually needs them. The work plays with contradiction, using a polished aesthetic and forced cheerfulness to expose deeper feelings of anxiety, insecurity, and social pressure. Humour is central to the piece, not as a way to soften the message, but to invite reflection on how we perform emotional stability in everyday life. Restless Retail critiques how personal struggles are often commercialised, while also creating space for people to laugh, relate, and question.
Nina Achtelik • Lily Christopher • Oran Curran Coleman • Amy McNamara • Svetlana Pavlenko • Jeremiah Thomas Segero • Marlena Walach Szejka •
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