Solo show
Material
Sculpture, installation, drawing, photography, collage
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Pink Horizon develops ideas of the body and the landscape by considering the body in relation to phenomena of place and temporal moments of shifting light. Pink Horizon interweaves ideas of corporeal and geographical topographies to create a gap of possibility. Lacking a specific wave on the electromagnetic spectrum there is no visible light that looks pink. An invention of vision, pink light falls into the gap between red and purple. This gap contains all things in the universe invisible, including radio waves, microwaves, infrared gamma rays and X-rays.
The presented works range across various levels of visibility, where some are visually abundant others need to be scrutinised to become present. Some works ‘scratch’ the eye, demanding the viewer to be attentive. Others ‘stroke’ – resting on vision and bodies as they pass - revealing the fleshiness of seeing as an interactive meeting place within a nomadic terrain.
Alongside philosophical poetics of the un/seen there is a formal investigation at play – What is the skin of sculpture, and how can sculpture disrupt its own form?
Exhibited
Oberwelt, Stuttgart, DE (2018)
Photo credits:
Traci Kelly, Marco Teschke, Matthias Müller, Mel Kirkham
Enquiries: tracikelly.artist@gmail.com
Material
Series of pencil drawings on photographic paper with incision using medical scalpel and ‘natural’ coloured hosiery.
Information
Stomata continues an interest in resistant materials. The photographic paper reluctantly accepts the mark-making of pencil, requiring an amount of pressure that is close to gouging. The outcomes resemble sections of digestive tracts and respond to a time when the artists father was recovering from colostomy surgery. The work continues a dialogue around skin un/boundaries and the hosiery selected for its colour trade name of ‘natural’ draws attention to the cultural and medical privileges embedded in dominant views of ‘natural’ in which it is equated to whiteness.
Dimensions
A3+
Photo © Traci Kelly
Enquiries: tracikelly.artist@gmail.com
Material
Series of prints of medical x-rays of sculpture
Information
Small sequin sculptures were placed on a 360º x-ray bed, creating a full panorama of their invisible life as a drawing.
Dimensions
A4
Photo © Traci Kelly
Enquiries: tracikelly.artist@gmail.com
Material
Polystyrene, metal tape, dress-making pins, sequins
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A developing cluster of varied sizes sculptures with hand-pinned sequins. They reference the landscape and the body, influenced by pinned blasted rock and the bouncing light of sun on sea (observed in the landscape whilst on residency at USF Verftet, Norway 2013) and the artists own troublesome skin conditions. Their scaly skins , absorption of passing material and bodies into their surface and the reflection of light form part of an ongoing enquiry into how sculpture may subvert, extend or deny its own form.
Dimensions
Variable
Photo
© Traci Kelly
Enquiries: tracikelly.artist@gmail.com
Material
Polystyrene, metal tape, dress-making pins, sequins
Information
A developing cluster of varied sizes sculptures with hand-pinned sequins. They reference the landscape and the body, influenced by pinned blasted rock and the bouncing light of sun on sea (observed in the landscape whilst on residency at USF Verftet, Norway 2013) and the artists own troublesome skin conditions. Their scaly skins , absorption of passing material and bodies into their surface and the reflection of light form part of an ongoing enquiry into how sculpture may subvert, extend or deny its own form.
Dimensions
Variable
Photo
© Traci Kelly
Enquiries: tracikelly.artist@gmail.com
Material
Mirror, dead bee
Information
A dead bee rests on a mirror within the installation of My Skin Touches Your Skin (Submersion). Each sequin sculpture in the installation requires much repetitive labour in the pinning of individual sequins. The bee is a stand-in for the female worker represented across various pieces via the bee, honey or beeswax.
Dimensions
Ø4cm
Photo
© Traci Kelly
Enquiries: tracikelly.artist@gmail.com