16 - Wendy Stavrianos silent rooms

Wendy Stavrianos - Silent Rooms and Portals to Uncertain Shores

2 July–30 July - Opening Saturday 2 July, 2 - 4pm

In this exhibition, the works hover between stillness and movement, between image and abstraction, inner-world and outer, personal and universal.
There is a disconnection from the desire to create a definite narrative. Instead, I have removed clues to reach deeper into the feeling of mystery in the work.
This feeling is highly charged, yet slow-burning with the important issues of our time. These are, the impact of climate change and mass migration, from the extremes of violence. My response to this overwhelming turmoil, is to attempt to distil the sense of powerlessness into visual poetic form, raw and urgent, as the current state of things.

This poetic form takes place within ‘The Room’, or through the ‘Portals or Gateways’, which implies journey’s; from one place to another, to one reality and another. The rooms we carry with us in our minds and memory are suspended in time, never to be erased.

Our lives can be summed up as a series of ‘exits and entrances’ that define who we are and what we stand for. Nature ultimately wins over all our desires and strivings.

The idea of the abandoned room, of nature’s take-over of the order and structure, burying human traces, transforming the elements into unrecognized forms, making our shelters become vulnerable spaces, the historic monuments reduced to landscapes of rubble.

I can, only through the matter of the medium, make sense of things, reaching out for my own territory of meaning within the mystery itself.

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