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Stockroom Kyneton, gallery two
13 August / 18 September 2022
PIP RYAN
Tongue-tied
Tongue-Tied is an exhibition that explores the strange space we now inhabit in a post-pandemic world. A space full of anxieties, awkward pauses, peculiarities and the absurdity of the fever dream that we have lived through over the last few years.
These works have been made throughout the duration of this strange time, where things flux between reality and a dreamscape. They reference observations and happenings of everyday life, oscillating between titillation and banality, using humour and abjection as a fixed point.
These fleshy forms make reference to hybrid manifestations. Their vacant eyes follow you around the room, leering from the interior of their frame. There are moments of recognition of form, of something looking from the inside out, an absence of a presence perhaps?
The works are painstakingly painted and assembled with tiny brushes, exploring iterations of line, pattern, colour and repetition. The figures float in an internal void, layered with personal narrative and meaning, a disembodied space. The works explore the slippages between reality and fantasy, between a self-portrait and a self-possessed