Parrasch Heijnen, Los Angeles
Washington DC, United States
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Neon Parc, Melbourne
Heide MOMA, Melbourne
Missing Persons, Melbourne
COMA Gallery, Sydney
Singapore Biennale, Singapore
National Art School, Sydney
Parrasch Heijnen, Los Angeles
Bundanon Art Museum, Bundanon
COMA Gallery, Sydney
RISING, Melbourne
MUMA Monash, Melbourne
COMA
(1) Romance, 2023, structural plywood, epoxy modelling, compound, cast aluminium, automotive paint, 130 x 56 x 70 cm
October 20–November 25, 2023
Utilising ways-of-seeing and perspective shifts to assess how intimate moments and ideas of closeness become all-encompassing. So Red It Looks Black acts as an access point to the density of feeling and how this is communicated.
Presenting a group of artists that address instances of personal
significance, this closeness to the creator and their individual circumstance allows a viewer to not only access and rationalise,but also empathise and in-turn possibly desire, or detest. Looking at contemporary art-making as multifaceted and crossing conceptual and material borders, the inevitable conglomeration of ideas and images is a thickness difficult to penetrate.
Acting as evocative reminders and warnings of complacency in navigating the world in a superficial and surface-level manner,the artworks of this exhibition communicate the personal stories and emotions of each artist, encouraging the same level of introspection and openness of the viewer. The exhibition posits that at the nexus of each work, is both a visual and psychological density, a build and layering of conceptual and material objective, that can be found only if the viewer is willing to look close enough.
Through various mediums and practices, each artist conduct enquiries into their own personal lives and broader shared narratives, offering a unique and vulnerable glimpse into their different lived experiences, whether that be through an imaginate landscape, distillation of personal memories, illustrations of the self or the construction of material.
So as to encompass but not overwhelm, the exhibition indulges in physical space between the artworks, allowing each work to retain its own unique sense of artistic intimacy, allowing the viewer to come to an abstract understanding of the importance of artistic expression and self-interrogation, whereby an understanding and celebration of vulnerability and the knowing of oneself begins to emerge.
So Red it Looks Black allows glimpses into what it means to be connected, and, what the layered emotional density of humanness looks like in a contemporary world.