Fractured Narratives
2018
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Fractured Narratives is a body of work made for the collaborative exhibition ‘Something to Remember’ with Alexis Neal. The exhibition referenced Louise Bourgeois’s late artist books ‘Nothing to Remember’ and ‘Ode to Forgetfulness’, in which she refigures forms and memories. Through iterative processes, working with textiles, stitching, knotting, drawing, printmaking, and text, my series explores the overlapping themes of aging, voice, and refiguring as an act remembering what to forget.
My works are layered and fragmented. In the screenprints, vibrant colours, saccharine palettes and cropped scans of straps, ribbons, and mesh are fractured by drawing of rhytides, evidence of aging. Silver foil text works point towards reading subtext as a way to attend to what's not said: ‘Like a window, not much to say’ narrates a form that is both inside and outside, a voiceless observer of all. Blind embossments are perhaps the most elusive works in the series. Made through processes of inversion and removal they question the possibility of breaking the hold of unchosen stories. These works are echoed in an artist book, digitally printed on translucent silk in which layers accumulate, form into images, and dissolve as pages are turned. The book is presented in a space defined by a macrame rope delineating the fragmented outline of a house.
The exhibition 'Something to Remember' was shown at Gus Fisher Gallery (2018) and The Suter Gallery (2019).
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