The exhibition currently showing at the Redhill Art Gallery until 31 October, shows work from their collection from two Exhibitions, “Divine Discontent” (2015) and “Mourning a Memory” (2018).
In “Divine Discontent” (A Straitjacket Series), The premise of the work is that, “People believe in certain ways, predetermined manners often according to pre-described norms of society. Anything counter to this is normally punished whereas “normalcy” is encouraged and rewarded.
In the series the “Strait Jacket” is a recurring motif, a metaphor, exploring boundaries, the idea of boundaries (social and self) and imposed system of thought. The work examines how we are anchored by social conditioning and expectation, always bound at the expense of what we desire, a reflection of an outward expression of our inner and intimate existence.
Resume your Flesh and Form V (2018🔴
“Mourning A Memory” (2018) was/is an examination of a time in decline and our in/ability to compartmentalize our lives, how we change/evolve and are forced to adapt in order to navigate our social spaces. Informed by social, political situations happening both locally and globally the series was an interrogation of our lives and as an estrangement and reinventing of self.
The similarity in the work is the constancy of the gaze that is repeatedly directed inward, an excavation of the soul to better understand ourselves and the spaces we occupy
Featured work:
Resume your flesh and Form V(2018)
Acrylic/Pastel/Mixed Media on Canvas
150cm x 100cm
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