The Body Remembers
2015
Whitespace Contemporary Art
Auckland
These paintings are a story of physicality or of finding. Using the body’s scaffolding as a starting point to push into abstraction, to break the space between body and world, or skin and atmosphere, to undo the myth that things are separate. I’m interested in how our bodies, like land, hold memories, how land, like skin across bones, holds onto the unfinished conversations of our ancestors, and how that shapes the images we make and how we see.
Catalogue essay by Creon Upton can be read here.
Installation view: (left) We’ve always been here (right) Two hundred footsteps
Viewer with ‘seven generations’
We’ve always been here
11,000 miles
Past the skin
Love
Many thanks to Rebecca Swan for photographing the work.