Older — Shanti Shea An

Fuzzy Logic

Duo exhibition, 05.02.20 - 23.02.20, Tributary Projects, Canberra

For these two artists, the act of looking and re-looking remains a point of fascination. Both are concerned with the elusive qualities of what the materiality of paint offers us today, and therefore do not see themselves as working purely within the confines of abstraction or figuration. In Lani Shea-An’s recent works, the processes of painting are revealed to expose a multitude of material surfaces. Suggestive of topographical landscapes, cloud formations and architectural structures, these paintings-as-objects/objects-as-paintings gesture towards a layering up of ‘partial truths’, of scenes seen through foggy windows. In Shanti Shea An’s paintings, anonymous figures are depicted in a state of observation or absorption. Placed in settings which appear simultaneously abstract and familiar, the viewer is invited to see themselves within the painting, as much as they are offered an encounter with ‘the other’. Though predominantly representative, these works conceal as much as they reveal. Fuzzy Logic brings together the work of two artists who are both intrigued by the “fuzziness” of knowing.

Some time with the Caravaggios, 2020

Bacon in the Vatican, 2020