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Laurence Kimmel
Threshold Spaces
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Acrylic and oil on canvas. 91,4 x 121,9 cm, 2024
Threshold Spaces, 2024. Acrylic and oil on canvas. 91,4 x 121,9 cm.
The painting reflects the challenges facing our homes—and, more broadly, our human-made environments, largely shaped during the Modern era—in the context of climate change and the enduring dominance of natural forces in the long term.
The painting expresses philosophical thoughts on the relation between reality and the imaginary topological shapes. Our relation to the horizon, the earth and the sky is lost and found again in the perception of the picture. Like the ‘flips’ between one state to another in our lives, in the Threshold Spaces between reality and imagination, these paintings display reflections, resonances and dissonances. The figures channel the relations between interior and exterior, earth and sky.
The painting reflects the challenges facing our homes—and, more broadly, our human-made environments, largely shaped during the Modern era—in the context of climate change and the enduring dominance of natural forces in the long term.
The painting expresses philosophical thoughts on the relation between reality and the imaginary topological shapes. Our relation to the horizon, the earth and the sky is lost and found again in the perception of the picture. Like the ‘flips’ between one state to another in our lives, in the Threshold Spaces between reality and imagination, these paintings display reflections, resonances and dissonances. The figures channel the relations between interior and exterior, earth and sky.
Laurence Kimmel (she/her) is an architect, an author, a curator and an artist living on Wangal Country/Concord, Australia. Her work on abstract landscapes, topologies and interconnections of spaces is enhanced by contrasted materialities, gradients and lines that are perceived as ‘cuts’ between spaces.
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