Lauren Fahey
Thresholds
“...the relation between what we see and what we know is never settled.”
How can we seek to reinvigorate an understanding of the curious and ordinary moments we dwell in? What in our lived experience can we hold onto when we find ourselves in a state of flux? It is at the margins, looking into the spaces where nothing of significance appears to be, where transformations in thought often arise; in the reflection of personal attitudes, positions, and relations. It is within the active liminal space where anything can occur. Subtle variations, a spatial shift, an emptiness full of possibilities. What if we didn’t associate boundaries with lines, and we thought about space instead?
Painting is the medium with which I explore these intermediate spatial and temporal thresholds. It is for me a medium of thought and action — a container that traverses the interior and exterior. Through painting, the transitory moments of contemporary life and the transformative rituals we enact to negotiate flux are given substance and shared.
Berger, J 1972, Ways of Seeing, 1st edn, British Broadcasting Corporation, London, England and Penguin Books Ltd., Middlesex, England, p. 7
I will not tell you what you already know, 2020
Oil on canvas
820mm x 760mm x 200mm
Today you will see (a little more than you have seen), 2020
Oil on canvas
750mm x 1000mm x 200mm
Commitment, 2020
Oil on canvas
660mm x 620mm x 200mm
Perhaps it helps me understand (place), 2020
Oil on canvas
760mm x 1110mm x 200mm
I'll wait here, 2020
Oil on canvas
920mm x 720mm x 200mm
Thresholds (installation view), 2020
Digital photograph
