Chasing Tails presents as an uncompromising exploration of boundaries: experimental and experiential processes with which artists enquire into the functioning of growth and decay through sustainability and extinction, war and politics, customs and future tech, and the archaeology of time. It features artists that wrestle control of their subject to make sense of contemporary positions, works that balance on the verge of integration and contrast, works that retain autonomy, but as a collective, sharpen our thinking about the agency we hold as a species. It acts as a present-day social laboratory where art reveals our encounters, from the birth of stars to our entanglements with external realities, inextricably tying us to place, and putting to bed any illusion that we can separate ourselves from the past and the future, for we are a small part of a much greater whole.
Chasing Tails features the work of globally respected artists Fabian Knecht (Germany), Sofie Muller (Belgium), Nicolás Lamas (Peru) and Joseph Kamaru (Nairobi), alongside those by local and national artists Sam Doctor, Jackson Farley, Yhonnie Scarce, Charlie Sofo and Kate Stevens. Their coming together creates a vital exchange of ideas, perspectives, and practices within a regional setting—nurturing community discourse and artistic ambition beyond metropolitan centres.
Curator: David Hagger
Opening: 20 June from 4pm