Whitewall Art Projects – ‘A dream did weave a shade’- Evelyna Helmer

Please join us as we welcome Evlyna Helmer to Whitewall Art Projects with her latest collection of paintings and collage. ‘Once A Dream Did Weave a Shade’ gives a voice to our isolation, at the same time reserving the right to fantasize on historical themes.

Aiming to unearth feelings of vulnerability, frustration, or desire while drawing on ideas of human experience and ideas of collective unconscious. Being open to the unknown, a surrealist goal to liberate thought and language from oppressive boundaries. Asking the question, do we have the capacity to shift or are we locked into one form, old ways of thinking and seeing? Paradoxical ideas, orientated on current events, nature, places of non-thinking. Deconstructing memories and ideas of the body in a catalogue of half stories that can be read but not explained. Images do not define but ask questions themselves.

Through a process of collecting, assembling, and composing, inventing a new visual language redirected into a strange tension. During the making of Collage, the artist meets the unexpected. What happens by chance, and being inspired by that unconscious act. In the meta material, creating Oil Paintings that subvert a rational vision in favour of finding image and beauty in the unexpected, disregarded, and unconventional. Technically conflating historical painting techniques and gestural handling of paint, with contemporary backgrounds in spray paint and ink. Re-ordering the world, and building poetics on accidents and unlikely pairings.

OPENING WEEKEND
Saturday 1st of May + Sunday 2nd of May
from 2 – 4 pm

View all works online https://whitewallartprojects.com.au/artist/evelyna-helmer/

Contact gallery@whitewallartprojects.com.au or call/text us on 0420 718 775
for further information.