Friday, October 13, 2023

"Beneath the Surface, Behind the Scenes" (Heide)

This was a good one, including contemporary Latin American and Australian artists and with a surprising level of thematic coherence - including an interest in erasure, instability and the marks we leave upon our natural environments.

Andre Komatsu - "Borders_2" (2016) - you can't really see it in the photo but the word "Norte" is written in pencil in the space below where the two sheets intersect, with a diagonal from there to the left

Tatiana Blass - "Teatro #17" (2016) - you have to look closely to see the two (at least I think it's only two) human figures

Elena Damiani - "Excavations" (2014) - digital print on silk chiffon, wood-framed, with white marble pillars installed behind

Ximena Garrido-Lenca - "Lines of Divergence" (2018) - a hypnotic video work shot by an overhead drone and depicting grid lines drawn in the Peruvian desert to demarcate ownership and my favourite of the exhibition