Added May 2, 2007
Parramatta Heritage Centre
A joint project between Parramatta Heritage Centre
and Parramatta Artists Studios
THE PROCESS LINE | 4 August – 28 October 2007
< Erna Lilje < Federico Mendoza < Tom Polo
346A Church Street, Parramatta
Open 9am - 5pm daily
T: 02 8839 3311
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W: www.parracity.nsw.gov.au
Synthetic spaces, spaces we make in our minds, our life, our time, spaces between people ideas, places. The flow and meld of time consciousness and perception creates the spaces, relationships, the lands in the sky, the micro worlds, the civilisations that never were.
The Process Line is an exhibition that is the reconstruction of the artists’ studio spaces. It looks at the archaeological dig that is the artist’s studio and traces the physical remains that are our clues to the engagement between the physical and imagined spaces that produce the artworks, the space between time of initial creative act and final artwork, the synthetic spaces between the maker and the viewer.
The Process Line is suggestive of both the factory line where repeatable objects are produced and the line of thought and act that produces artworks. Lines come from the same imaginary place as spaces. They separate one space from another, one country from another in an agreement on how we will perceive meaning. Does the process line in fact exist? Is it in the movement from the space in the mind where the creative moment sparks to the stages in the process? Perhaps, if our view of the world is linear. Space, like line, indicates a defining but what if existence is about synthesis and flow, borderlessness, spacelessness instead of linear. Can these constructs ever be more than the creative impulse of humanity desperately attempting to make sense of life in the chaos? Then again, what if lines and spaces are the way we are defined in the physical and imaginative sense and we are all lines crossing and defining spaces? Perhaps we are all caught up in the process line making synthetic spaces.
Come see the exhibition, blur the lines and spaces of reality and muse on: what are we really, what is creativity, what is consciousness?
Gay Hendriksen