St Heliers Street Gallery, Abbotsford Convent
10 - 27 November 2022
The Middle Distance, comprises repetitive hand-drawn, woven and installation works that highlight the methodical processes of their construction and test the bounds of perception and spatial experience as they appear to shift with the viewers’ movement.
Staring into the middle distance is a blurry state of focused disengagement with one’s surroundings, a malleable yet static condition caught between reality and dreaming that entices the peripheral senses. The works in this exhibition conjure a between state, visually jumping and pulsing as the viewer encounters them, inciting you to look, and look again. This active engagement between body, senses and environment is what connects us to our surroundings and shapes our perception of space. Becoming aware of what is out of focus, in the periphery of our awareness, might just reveal more about the reality of our world than what is right in front of us.
READ the exhibition essay by Sophia Cai.
This project is supported by the City of Yarra.
The Middle Distance (installation view).
The Middle Distance (installation view).
The Middle Distance (installation view).
Digital pigment print on paper and pins, 168 x 236 x 5 cm
POA
Wool and cotton, 100 x 94 cm (framed)
$ 6,900
SOLD
The Midst, 2020 (Right)
Wool and cotton, 94 x 105 cm
$ 6,400
The Midst (detail), 2020
The Middle Distance (installation view).
The Middle Distance (installation view).
Hand drawn ink on paper, 49.5 x 36.3 cm (framed)
$ 990
SOLD
Murmuration in Three Circles (II), 2021 (Right)
Hand drawn ink on paper, 42 x 29.7 cm
$ 790
The Middle Distance (installation view).