Soft Spot @ Nyisztor Studio

Soft Spot is three artists' exploration of infatuation and emotional vulnerability represented in corporeal settings.

Opening on February 14th at Nyisztor Studio Fremantle „Soft Spot‟ is a blend of confronting and comforting imagery of the body studying the connective tissue binding sentimental memory with bodily reality. Bringing what the body remembers in to a visual medium an effort is made to understand and process these experiences that influence flesh and bone as much as heart and mind.

Each of the three artists contribute their distinct style producing a boldly accentuated yet cohesive contrast of works in painting installation and sculpture. The narratives of „Soft Spot‟ play out across these media recounting those experiences we struggle to discard for better or worse. 

Xavier Turisini contorts traditional forms with deliberate geometry to create balanced corporeal melodrama. Tension and weight disform the distantly recogniseable the resulting uncanny composition concurrently tugging familiarity and aversion.

Stef Rae explores and pushes the textural boundaries of paint creating a diverse range of artworks engaging in narratives between reality and imagination. Beginning paintings in abstraction and allowing the work to develop its own form Stef brings subconscious and conscious elements together into realised themes of dream-like obscurity strength and identity.

Adam Hisham Ismail is an Egyptian/Australian visual and sound artist whose practice echoes the mechanics and broken narratives of dreams and the elastic nature of memory. Mediating an uneasy conversation where the familiar and the strange intersect his work has been described as “an anticipation of sound and kinesis”.

Using flagrant pageantry animal archetypes and idiolectic mythology Ismail creates a series of formal and conceptual conundrums which invite the audience to construct their own narratives. 

Opening Friday February 14th from 6:00 - 9:00pm @ Nyizstor Studio Fremantle.

Runs from February 15th – Mar 2 (closed Mondays+Tuesdays).

Xavier Turisini:@turisini.jerk

Stef Rae: @stef.rae.does.art

Adam Hisham Ismail: @adamhashamismael

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Host or Publisher Xavier Turisini