Inhabiting Two Worlds
Exhibition by
Simone Linssen
2 March - 27 Mar 2020
OPENING NIGHT:
Saturday 7 March, 6-8pm
Exhibition by
Simone Linssen
2 March - 27 Mar 2020
OPENING NIGHT:
Saturday 7 March, 6-8pm
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Image Left: The Party Oil on canvas 76 x 76cm Image right: Pastel Hysteria Oil on canvas 76 x 76cm
“Most fearsome is the ubiquity of fears; they may leak out of any nook or cranny of our homes and our planet. From dark streets and from brightly lit television screens. From our bedrooms and our kitchens. From workplaces and from the underground train we take to get there or back.” - Zygmunt Bauman
Recently graduated from an Honours Degree in Fine Art, Simone Linssen utilises a painting practice to interrogate anxiety. Her exhibition ‘Inhabiting Two Worlds’ blurs the real and the imagined, utilising place and figures to explore themes of panic disorder, impending disaster and discomfort. Focusing on specific issues of social anxiety and agoraphobia, furthermore, examining the subsequent sensations of loneliness and isolation that can follow.
Addressing Sigmund Freud’s description of anxiety as an objectless or realistic state of fear involving the expectation of danger. ‘Inhabiting Two Worlds’ explores the tension between the real and the imagined, the rational and irrational mind. To portray this, figures are featured in intimate or domestic spaces which can be places of comfort and solitude or isolation and entrapment.
Expressionistic formal elements are utilised including exaggerated colours, distorted perspective and dynamic paint application. Perspective has been used to overwhelm and convey discomfort. Distorted compositions and figures are used to represent the skewed perception of reality when suffering social anxiety.
The unreal colour palettes represent the heightened senses experienced when suffering anxiety. Warmer colours create a domestic feeling, while signifying dread and danger, aiming to incite an overwhelming or foreboding sensation. Artworks of a cooler palette explore alienation and loneliness.
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics anxiety is the most common mental health illness in Australia, where one in seven have anxiety disorders.
“A painting practice can give visual representation to anxiety while being an important tool for understanding emotions in contemporary culture. ” – Simone Linssen.
“Most fearsome is the ubiquity of fears; they may leak out of any nook or cranny of our homes and our planet. From dark streets and from brightly lit television screens. From our bedrooms and our kitchens. From workplaces and from the underground train we take to get there or back.” - Zygmunt Bauman
Recently graduated from an Honours Degree in Fine Art, Simone Linssen utilises a painting practice to interrogate anxiety. Her exhibition ‘Inhabiting Two Worlds’ blurs the real and the imagined, utilising place and figures to explore themes of panic disorder, impending disaster and discomfort. Focusing on specific issues of social anxiety and agoraphobia, furthermore, examining the subsequent sensations of loneliness and isolation that can follow.
Addressing Sigmund Freud’s description of anxiety as an objectless or realistic state of fear involving the expectation of danger. ‘Inhabiting Two Worlds’ explores the tension between the real and the imagined, the rational and irrational mind. To portray this, figures are featured in intimate or domestic spaces which can be places of comfort and solitude or isolation and entrapment.
Expressionistic formal elements are utilised including exaggerated colours, distorted perspective and dynamic paint application. Perspective has been used to overwhelm and convey discomfort. Distorted compositions and figures are used to represent the skewed perception of reality when suffering social anxiety.
The unreal colour palettes represent the heightened senses experienced when suffering anxiety. Warmer colours create a domestic feeling, while signifying dread and danger, aiming to incite an overwhelming or foreboding sensation. Artworks of a cooler palette explore alienation and loneliness.
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics anxiety is the most common mental health illness in Australia, where one in seven have anxiety disorders.
“A painting practice can give visual representation to anxiety while being an important tool for understanding emotions in contemporary culture. ” – Simone Linssen.