after the exhibition

 QCP catalogue
June 2011 exhibitions
“things beyond resemblance”  Theodor W. Adorno / Hullot -Kentor, R., ‘Things Beyond Resemblance,’ 2006 Columbia University Press.

There seems to be a compelling semblance featured in each artists work. A somewhat strange psychological signifier has been stimulated by an inherent culture and re-defined by a new-founded orientation. A strong interplay of order and disorder, and placement and displacement is undeniably evident. A disruption or an interlude becomes the catalyst. These artists share a resemblance. By addressing different aspects of orientation, they re-examine both the imagined and the observed.

Alana Hampton: Underwaterworld
Alana Hampton’s clever tampering and deconstruction of the natural, is undoubtedly compelling. Her works, hinge at a strange juncture, a melting point where the underworld meets the visible. These works carry sound to the silence. It’s a contemplative space, tracing one of nature’s most powerful forces being the transition of tidal time. To be underwater is to become internal, isolated from sound, and estranged from the human sphere, as we know it. Here Hampton’s narration lends itself to the examination of our internal dialogue void of time, and order. Although alluding to images of rivers, mangrove swamps and nature’s own beasts, Hampton’s fragmentation of the natural seemingly denies the literal.
Her vernacular is intelligent, floating in a world that bridges two aesthetic styles being both the physical and its manifestation. Hampton anchors the spectator into a realm of unknowingness, a powerful intersection that examines nature’s own relationship, the outer and the inner. These works become a romantic mediation.

http://www.qcp.org.au/exhibitions/previous/exhibitions-2011/album-642/91