- Venue
- The Muse Gallery & Studio
- Starts
- Thursday, July 13, 2023
- Ends
- Sunday, August 6, 2023
- Address
- 269, Portobello Road, London, W11 1LR
- Location
- London
- Organiser
- The Muse
Private view on the 13th July / 6-9pm
Show runs from 14th to 30th July
www.themuseat269.com
In ‘SHE WITHOUT THE S’, Symrath Patti her latest work brings together her multimedia practice – drawing, painting, poetry and video installation, exploring how we negotiate the different layers of space. Social, cultural, creative and gendered spaces. The drawings and the paintings explore the differing meaning of the transcendental within the artist’s creativity. In the drawings Patti is uninhibited by form, repetition as a form of expression and mark-making. A making and unmaking of herself, as an artist and as a gendered being.
While Patti’s painting explores the intervention of cultural norms and rituals into the transcendental spaces. Patti’s works in the gallery investigate the spaces of transcendence, how are these transcendental spaces inflected with external dialogues of the gendered roles and positions of subjection and nurturing. How in these transcendental realms can we overcome these roles? Within these personal explorations Patti has incorporated into her painting the textures and patterns of traditional Sikh wedding saris, her mother’s hand embroidered garments, and other elements of her Sikh faith to challenge the texture and frame of the image.
Imbuing her images with embodied presences that take on different personas to reflect on her dialogue with her faith and her creativity. Patti’s new work explores elements of her spirituality, articulating and questioning how each of us, as individuals and social beings, navigate the lacuna of the fractured selves. Fractures that are reflected in our interactions with each other and how this impacts on our personal and private relationships and our sense of self. It is this friction in the intimate spaces of our interior self and the exterior world that are explored within the various elements within the various media present within the exhibition. In the intimate charcoal drawings Patti presents us with drawings on charcoal that are marked by fluid, flowing lines that express a sense of freedom uninhibited by pictorial or figurative representation.
The charcoal drawings are juxtaposed by the larger paintings, which seem cluttered vying for space within the image. In the painting the introduction of figuration see Patti’s exploring of the tensions between the spiritual and social realms. In her video installation and poetry, Patti invites the audience to move reflexively between conflicting spaces of public and private realms.
