The Space Between Words - SOLO
November 2018 - GalleryY, Cairns
Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) Graduating Exhibition
In the wake of bereavement and through tediously repetitive processes, the exhibition searches out the space between words, effecting a continuation of an unfinishable conversation. Interrupted by death, these communications have now become a liminal exchange of unuttered questions and silent pauses.
Language describes the concept of loss and therefore brings with it an understanding of this state. By discarding this knowledge and producing an exhaustive ‘non-language’, the works renegotiate the certainty of experiential life events and reverse the notion of concrete experiences. Memories and longings influence the present with remedial interpretations of the past, challenging the role of familiar objects and old sensibilities.
In recognizing the universality of death and the current culture of memorializing the mundane, the exhibition considers how human absence might be held in the fabric of everyday existence and felt in the fullness of commonplace objects. In this sense, unremarkable articles evolve into both a repository of memories and a reminder of their missing owners. Carrying the trace of previous use, these ordinary items are imbued with new meaning and form a connection back to lost relationships.
In the wake of bereavement and through tediously repetitive processes, the exhibition searches out the space between words, effecting a continuation of an unfinishable conversation. Interrupted by death, these communications have now become a liminal exchange of unuttered questions and silent pauses.
Language describes the concept of loss and therefore brings with it an understanding of this state. By discarding this knowledge and producing an exhaustive ‘non-language’, the works renegotiate the certainty of experiential life events and reverse the notion of concrete experiences. Memories and longings influence the present with remedial interpretations of the past, challenging the role of familiar objects and old sensibilities.
In recognizing the universality of death and the current culture of memorializing the mundane, the exhibition considers how human absence might be held in the fabric of everyday existence and felt in the fullness of commonplace objects. In this sense, unremarkable articles evolve into both a repository of memories and a reminder of their missing owners. Carrying the trace of previous use, these ordinary items are imbued with new meaning and form a connection back to lost relationships.
Images: Michael Marzik and Rose Rigley