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 (an activity in the concourse of AGWA late 2020).

Extra shapes and simple connectors have been included to entice the creation of vertical structures & cubbies. The daily participation involves building and dismantling. After a busy day of construction, the objects are dismantled and stacked into colours - ready for the next day’s creations.

Horizontal Geometries at the Art Gallery of WA (finished February 10, 2020)

Art Gallery of Western Australia Exhibition

WA Now - 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.