SOFT SPOT

solo exhibition at Eins Gallery, 2022

The pace of the world has become faster. The images we experience on a day to day basis have no bounds. Our sensory overload is euphoric, our urban spaces domesticated and constantly on view. Encompassing one more space, one more reality, to what extent can we expand or transmute the meaning of lived experiences, those of touch and friction? Can the Proustian moment – otherwise a sensory déjà vu– continue to catch us by surprise?

Soft Spot begins to encircle these metaphysical questions and experiences. In the form of wall and ceiling hung tapestries, the works in Soft Spot embrace the noise of contemporary urban living in sensory frames that have no full stop.

Pixelated hand-tufted yarn predates the pixelated digital image. The material tension grows, but in cutting and looping through a continuous motion – like fluid– , there exists no isolation for the time spent inside Soft Spot. In observing all of the senses in the world, senses which, like the colour of the works, are eruptive and stimulating, we discover that no time spent is time lost or wasted. All details of time spent are part of a process. All facets of urban living become timeless.

Text by Chloe Stavrou

Time as a sense , 2022

162 x 136 cm

Hand-tufted wool