The works in this exhibition operate at the intersection of sound, drawing, and moving image, where rhythm and repetition become strategies for both making and meaning.
The "Noise Drawings" originate from manipulated sound and signal, translated into a tactile register. They are not illustrations of sound but subjective readings - a physical manifestation of interpreting through the hand. The structured surface of the paper, together with the pressure of the pastel, determines how the marks settle, leaving traces that seem random. Yet these drawings embody the tension between disorder and system: our compulsion to read into abstraction, to identify forms, to locate meaning, to see patterns where at first there appears only disturbance.
The "Tangle Drawings" shift this exploration into a more embodied metaphor, where the knot becomes both an obstacle and a possibility - a visualisation of coping and problem-solving. Observing, pulling, pushing, loosening, tracing and retracing, the drawings record a slow search for solutions, for connections, for release, for ways through.
The film "PACE" extends these concerns into movement and time. Structured as a disjunctive, associational montage across two screens, its imagery includes the close-up of a horse’s breathing nostrils, hands pulling at rope, a woman juggling, and footage from the prow of a boat struggling to keep the horizon in line. The scenes do not form a linear narrative but unfold associatively, each fragment linked through rhythm, gesture, and resonance. There is an underlying sense of breaking out of the loop of repetition.
The soundtrack, similarly, is rhythmic yet slightly lagging - almost keeping time but never fully coinciding - evoking the sensation of being out of step, an understanding and sense-making that emerges only in hindsight.
Patterns, repetitions, and cycles underpin the collection of works in this the cycles of the body, the seasons of the earth, and the rhythms of the cosmos. They offer a way of grasping complexity, of staying with uncertainty, and of recognising that order is always provisional, always in flux. |
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