Note at the door & clips from the core video works w soundscapes as part of TENSEGRITY. At Fibre Gallery in Ōtautahi. irl for the full lengths & 1of1 serigraph responses. SL
“Sometime in the sliver of breath between night and dawn, we kneeled at the mouth of the cave. Atua took my face in her hands and pushed liver against my lips, caking our grazed shins with mud and sand from the river banks. The water was leaving the surface, pulling deeper into hiding again, leaving exposed for a moment the traces of passage, bringing about a certain thirst. The sky became red and we felt the earth turning.”
Sina Leo visits Fibre Gallery with a vignette of scenes tracing the lines between transactionalism and ethical form in Aotearoa. The collection within “TENSEGRITY” builds visual language to explore aspects of violence within societies in order to comprehend the shifting of emotional landscapes over time. SL orbits her practice around avant garde cinema, shooting in sparse environments the enigmatic features of nature and the ominous presence of the human made.
Inspired by movement, light and time, her practice increasingly drifts between the tangible and abstract. Having spent much of her early life exploring the vastly changing landscapes of Aotearoa, her greatest collaborator and source of language is the natural world. Often SL’s work remarks on aspects of society, challenging the notion of separation and enquiring upon the ceaseless evolutions of human kind, cause and effect.
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“The term TENSEGRITY first came to me as I was studying human anatomy. It refers to the way a tension reliant structure responds in its entirety to the alteration of a single point. We see that within our bodies, we see that in societies and also within ecosystems. When violence happens to us or within our global community structure, all are impacted physically and mentally. We respond, we desensitise, we change and adjust accordingly in time. After a while you may reflect on why violence happens between people so much, why governing bodies seem to be so placid about it or in some instances encourage violence.”
“TENSEGRITY” opens with Fibre Gallery May 8th.
Sound:Visual conversation w Haututū @allanagoldsmith@luc__vitk and later continued session w @waiwhai.ai
printing ink, marker, charcoal, oil paint : 600x600
Hits exploration maxing, earnest techniques, falling into creative flow, challenging, liberating
TĀMAKI ORO RAU - Taonga Pūoro ki Akarana. The first wānanga held at Ngā Kete Wānanga Marae. Led by @mangainui : joining makers, players, supporters. Txsm for opening the wā for talanoa/kōrero and weaving of aaall that ihi.
Tuesday gone visual company for the @dreamchambers@robthornenz@motte_ettom@waiwhai.ai show at @audio.foundation : Waitākere footage, western highway light exposures and complex pairs of taonga for each artist : ōmea mask & hue, ūpokohue vertibrae, foafoa & string of shells, pua’a tusk. Grateful! ☁️
