ANTEROGRADE/RETROGRADE
December 2022
Group show with Belinda Yee, Justine Roche, Ali Tahayori, Sadbhda Cockburn and Armando Chant
EXHIBITION STATEMENT
retrograde//anterograde is a contemporary investigation into the human experience of time, perception and materiality. Illustrating the pivotal apex between past and future, this group show brings together multidisciplinary artists: Armando Chant, Sadbha Cockburn, Justine Roche, Ali Tahayori and Belinda Yee to articulate the nuanced space of becoming.
Using installation, photography, video and drawing as tools, these artists investigate a spectrum of dichotomous relationships. From anticipatory environmental grief to the tactility of time, transitions in psyche following trauma, to materialising the void between the material and immaterial, retrograde//anterograde reveals the greyscale precipices on which these artists practise.
In a series of dye sublimated photographs which explore the transformative nature of landscape, artist Armando Chant unifies the abstract and figurative to illustrate the inherent potential of the in-between as a place, space and site of imaginative engagement. Drawing on and into photographic imagery, Chant demonstrates a nascent state of emergence and becoming, exploring the liminal space between erasure and negation, and ultimately questioning the dynamic equilibrium of image and surface.