Exhibition: Platform for Emerging Arts 18
Platform for Emerging Arts 18 is a mixed-media exhibition showcasing the work of a diverse and exciting group of skilled national and international emerging artists, who have been selected for their promise and skill by curators Adriana Cerne and Lindsay Moran.
Lina Avramidou, who is my workshop tutor and she informed us she’s got the exhibition which presenting her works in Leyden Gallery. In this exhibition, her work considers notions of identity, perception, memory and place. She makes use of the expressive potential of monochromatic imagery where marks, lines and shapes serve as s foundational metaphor for history, place and time. Other visual signifiers, such as fragments or traces of found objects incorporated or imprinted on paper, evoke a sense of the past, a memory partially erased or distorted through time. Using these objects in a new, different context, she constructs new narratives evoke reimagined and inspired by the history if the object themselves.
Not only the prints she exhibits, but also her art books which I think it would be worth to visit. The gallery is tiny but suitable for artists who wish to present their piece of small works. The display area is separated into ground floor and basement with clean white walls which providing the stillness environment. It did look like the time was stopped and full of silence.
I really like her works, particularly her 15 individual prints, which presenting in an abstract way by creating shapes and lines against white papers, when you look closer, it is not just a pure white paper, there are some details on the paper which literally behind the obvious object in front of our eyes, it gives the sensation of telling circle process, which narratives happen every moment as well as the past was replaced, history becomes history. I have learnt from this exhibition, from Lina’s works, how we create simple but delicate works to convey the complicated concept behind, I can tell that’s my task, capturing stillness but expressing more important details through my images, which I think I need more practices on it.
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