Head Under Water
April 06, 2025 - April 27, 2025
RK Contemporary 32 Main Street Riebeek Kasteel
Kristen McClarty – Original woodcut and monotype print
Cynthia Edwards – Ceramic vessels and ceramic relief sculpture
This exhibition brings together three artists working in process driven mediums (hand pulled original print, ceramics and embroidery) in response to a set of photographs of a body under water, moving through a space. The theme that underpins the exhibition is the notion that energy or experience accumulates in a place, interacting with the environment and what happens there, both before and after the event. The artists have explored this idea and visually expressed their thoughts with a series of abstract works using colours and shapes that tell a story of a fleeting transfer of energy, an interaction with a space or the memory of a moment.
In some of the works, the viewer can make out the presence of human form, but in most, the viewer is left with an impression of movement and the residue of a moment. A brief, ephemeral instance captured by the artist, where the stimulus of the world drops away, as if the artist is Head Under Water.
