Selbstsein

Artist Statement

Grounded in the existential notion of Selbstsein, an authentic experience of being as oneself, this exhibition brings into dialogue material and perceptual negotiations of the beauty in presence and environment. Catherine Henley reframes the layered beauty of Australia’s ancient ecologies alongside cleared agricultural terrains, where remnants of old-growth forests, salt plains, and coastlines sit in tension with wheat belts, paddocks, roadsides, and train lines. Hand saw-pierced sheet metal evokes dissected ontologies and temporalities, while ink washes blur memory and continuity. Martina Latimer approaches beauty as a painterly condition rather than a moral claim. Through blur as both technique and metaphor, forms drift between emergence and dissolution, allowing images to exist as autonomous entities shaped by attention and aesthetic sensitivity.

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