GALLERY 3
LOOKING FOR CHARLIE
PENELOPE TROTTER
Looking for Charlie is an installation based performance work where, with the permission of my grandmother, I endeavour to find the American soldier named “Charlie” with whom she has been in love since he was stationed in Melbourne during World War II. Within the installation I “become” my grandmother in order to act as a conduit for their possible reunion, and to personally explore the feelings of reminiscence and psychic fracturing that are associated with thwarted war romance, longing and a desire for knowledge of Charlie’s eventual fate. This work in particular addresses and liberates the common repressed desire for women to pursue the other.
