Enjoy Contemporary Art Space - Te Aro
On Blushing is a group show invoking this particular absent presence that eros (proverbial desire) leaves us with—an interplay of absence and presence constantly lapsing in and out of focus as desire flickers within us. Developed in response to Anne Carson’s Eros theBittersweet (1986), a sense of longing and yearning permeates these works. Pieces are missing here—words without a page, teeth without a mouth. Only one half of a whole. But the works here are not trying to complete themselves, they are staying suspended perfectly in this twilit margin, forever in a state of unrequited desire.
Researching this show, I’ve become enamoured with endlessly repeated images of love, now emptied of real feeling. We re-enact movements and looks and words of love, and these symbols, mutated over centuries, echo our movements back to us in turn. Swirling lights in the dark, clouds in soft focus technicolour with sweeping orchestral swells. The crystalline glamour of love imagined may briefly fill the absence and quell the longing, the weeping and gnashing of teeth. These works reveal the twist in the stomach, the tear leaking through the vision sick with beauty. A moment of life in the likeness, the movement and melting of statues.
Curated by Tom Denize
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| Address : | Te Aro, Wellington 6011, New Zealand |
| Phone : | 📞 +87 |
| Postal code : | 6011 |
| Website : | http://www.enjoy.org.nz/ |
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| Description : | Opened in 2000, this noncommercial space hosts contemporary works by emerging & established artists. |
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