Opening night with the artist – Thursday 10 July 2014, 7pm
Here Nor There is the first Singapore solo exhibition presented by Berlin-based, Australian artist Karla Marchesi in Singapore.
Here Nor There illustrates interactions between nature and the urban environment to metaphoric effect. Inspired by her observational wanderings around the streets of Berlin, Marchesi’s monochromatic paintings present scenes of unruly vegetation framing austere urban facades and reclaiming overlooked city landscapes. Animated by her subtractive drawing technique, severed tree trunks and foliage canopies shift in and out of the picture plane, suspended somewhere between emerging and receding, reality and dreamscape, neither here nor there.
Concerning itself with the space and tension found between states of becoming, this collection captures both the artist’s experience of living between two geographies, Brisbane and Berlin, and serves as a portrait for the latter—its complex history, and ability to flourish amidst the cracks found in even the most futile of places.
Marchesi has a Bachelor of Fine Arts, First Class Honours, from Queensland College of Art, Griffith University (Australia). She has held multiple solo exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane (Australia), as well as Berlin (Germany). She was the recipient of the 2013 Australia Council for the Arts New Work Grant – Early Career. From 2012-2013 she held a studio residency with Atelierhaus Mengerzeile, Berlin. Her work has been collected by The University of Queensland and the Southern Downs Regional Art Collection (Australia).
The exhibition continues until 3 August 2014.
