Carlier Makigawa, an Australian
born artist, creates works with a very constructed aesthetic. They visually
relate to frames, scaffolding and cages, and in some way the ideas carried with
those visuals. The indication of a frame or cage implies that something lies
within; it is a way of displaying or encasing. Without this role being
performed the pieces seem hollow and incomplete. Perhaps the ‘frame’ is
becoming more important than the ‘art’ within. It wasn’t until I turned to the
internet for more information after the gallery visit that I found other works
from her 2012 exhibition, ‘nature and structure’, that lend themselves further to these ideas.
The smooth,
delicate and natural forms of the coral imply an ephemeral existence, whereas
the straight and dense frames suggest a strength and permanence; further
emphasizing the idea of the cage. The two provide each other with purpose. In
the first images I have attached the works are purely structural, without its frame
purpose. Personally I find this absence more intriguing as absence can be very
vivid and powerful. It speaks to notions of loss and grief, similar to that of
a house framework left behind after a fire has destroyed all that was within. A
ghost of a once functional object. Framing and exposing what lies inside is a
theme I wish to look into further.
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