Fractured Narratives
2018
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Fractured Narratives is a body of work which explores themes of aging and rupture, through printmaking, textiles, knotting, and text.
It was made for the two-person exhibition ‘Something to Remember’ with Alexis Neal. Saccharine colour palettes and closely cropped images of mesh and lace are fractured by rhytides, marks formed by aging skin. Blind embossments are made through a process of inversion that results in the elimination of details. In a translucent, silk organza artist book, layers accumulate, form into images, and dissolve as pages are turned. The book is presented within a space delineated by a knotted rope suggesting the partial outline of a room or house.
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'Something to Remember' by Elke Finkenauer and Alexis Neal was shown at Gus Fisher Gallery (2018) and The Suter Gallery (2019).
The exhibition title references Louise Bourgeois’s artist book ‘Nothing to Remember’. In this work, made late in her life, she refigures forms she returned to throughout her career, conveying both preservation and relinquishment, and the tension between memory and forgetting.
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