‘Spiral Passages’ is the exhibition I’ve had the pleasure of organising with artists Lupo Borgonovo, Nina Zeljković and Constantina Iacovou. After years admiring their work from afar - literally a very distant continent - and months planning, I’m so thrilled to see their practices united at Haydens in Naarm/Melbourne.
The exhibition continues until the 18th of October, Fridays and Saturdays or by appointment.
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‘Spiral Passages’ presents new works by Lupo Borgonovo, Constantina Iacovou, and Nina Zeljković, culminating in a broad range of mediums including painting, sculpture, printmaking, text, and drawing. The assembly of their practices celebrates the first presentation of these works in Australia and cultivates reciprocity across their respective practices in both a poetic and pragmatic register.
The exhibition visualises echoes of the past which continue to punctuate our present moment. Infused with temporal slippages evoked by nature, mythology, intuition, folklore, and the relic, ‘Spiral Passages’ draws together works weighted with spirit – charged by relational pulses that traverse time and place.
United through shared conceptual methods of re-tracing, each artist acts as a conduit for the manifestation of scenes, memories, and marks of times past – collective, personal, and spiritual. The process of ‘revisiting’ is enacted using tools of translation, mimicry, and pilgrimage, filtering histories into tangible forms that offer blurred visions of distant realities, and the residual essence of those who came before us. Our linear visualisation of history is malleable with each artists offering – enveloping a single moment that can exist alongside moments past.
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Photos courtesy Christo Crocker and Haydens.
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