Power is seemingly everywhere – in our languages, norms, practices and in art.
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Yet, art also offers us life worlds beyond power.
​BEYOND POWER
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As a practice for becoming undone, my painting quest has been one which makes its slow-burning, unconscious, ecstatic and mesmerizing way through vulnerability, rage, desire – towards the fullness of being-with one another and the world, beyond power.
The titles of my UK exhibitions: Pulse 2001, Coming Alive 2013, Taking Risks 2014, Going South 2015, Living the Fold 2017 and Towards Deep and Radiant Time 2018, frame something of the power dispersing and ethically constitutive ambitions of this transformative quest. Those ambitions are indebted to my feminist energies and post-colonial sensibilities, but are enacted as the fractal unfolding of a pluralizing life-force that undoes mastery and psychic repression to trouble representation and identarian thinking.
That ‘negativity’ resists and transforms the binary logic that underpins coercive practices, including those that stifle our freedom and the recognition of our mutual vulnerability. In concert and in the face of those prohibitions, the pulsing seams, pluralizing grammars and uncanny body/landscape assemblages of my painting practice, read as psychic portals that do their sublime and life-enhancing work beyond repression, coercion and linguistic representation.
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