Katrina Beekhuis
EXUVIAE
19 October – 12 November 2022
exuviae
cast or sloughed skin of an insect; husk, shell, exoskeleton.
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An image is made by sticking washi tape to a sheet of newsprint. The tape is cut in the grid-like format of a calendar, attached to the windowpane and left for several months. Removing the tape reveals a sun-bleached image ghosted onto the light-sensitive surface.
What does it mean to gather or deplete over time, to exist in slightness or impermanence? This exhibition comprises sculptures and a drawing and employs opacity as both a material condition and conceptual approach–an obscuring at odds with a world of hyper-visibility propelled by neoliberalism’s rationale of quantifying, reducing and knowing.
Rather than a hollowing out, this exhibition seeks aggregation, time and opacity to open up, destabilise and unstick the stuck down.
