ART GALLERY OF WA (AGWA) INSTALLATION
Looking out/back/in
+ SKYLINE/TIMELINE
Gallery 9
Presented as part of ‘The View From Here’
The re-opening of AGWA included a further iteration of Horizontal Geometries (which was an all ages activity in the concourse of AGWA in late 2020). Extra shapes and simple connectors were added to entice the creation of vertical structures & cubbies. Much like the making a Buddhist Sand Mandala, the daily participation was an exercise in impermanence and non-attachment - via the process of building and dismantling. After a busy day of construction, the objects were dismantled and stacked once more into ‘sentinels’ of colour - ready for the next day’s creations.
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Eveline Kotai - Breathing Pattern
17 August 2019 - 10 February 2020
Curated by: Dunja Rmandić, Associate Curator 21st Century Arts
Over the past 15 years, Eveline Kotai’s interest in material dissolution and regeneration has culminated in the practice and process of cutting up and reworking her own paintings into new works. Her unique technique of reconfiguring pre-existing works into new compositions via invisible thread, and onto new surfaces, echoes a world in perpetual motion, transition and continuation. Like a computer program trying to repair itself or a human mind trying to get to know itself, new paths are found, new solutions forged. This method provides Kotai with, not only a never-ending source of new beginnings, but also an important meditative practice, a kind of breathing pattern, through which the action of cutting and stitching echo the rhythmic sequences of life.
The work in this exhibition includes a selection of painted and stitched works. The exhibition is carefully curated in response to the hexagon-like shape of the room. Living Forest, traverses approximately 11 meters as it shifts through seasonal changes, wrapping around 3 of the 6 walls. Other works - Trace Elements, White Noise Re-mix & Writing on Air are more contemplative works - edited and evocative, still but not stagnant.
2019 - Horizontal Geometries AGWA Concourse