COAGULANT CARTOGRAPHIES; MENTAL MISTS OF DEBRIS

16 October – 2 November 2013

Opening Night | Thursday 17 October 6-8pm

Aimee Fairman

Continuing Aimee Fairman’s exploration of psycho-geographical landscapes, Coagulant Cartographies; mental mists of debris, presents a suite of chance-based paintings which ruminate the cross-over between scientific investigation and the poetics of aesthetics, through the careful mediation of materiality and gesture to create a proposed cartography suggestive of synaptic mapping, transient territories and thought forms.

Aimee Fairman is represented by Beam Contemporary.

IMAGES | Aimee Fairman, Nightflight, oil, acrylic on canvas, resin, Tasmanian oak, 120 x 90cm| Images courtesy of the artist. 

Continuing Aimee Fairman’s exploration of psycho-geographical landscapes, Coagulant Cartographies; mental mists of debris, presents a suite of experimental, process-based paintings which engage with ideas of synaptic mapping, transient territories and thought forms.

Fluctuating in appearance between the insect-like, the atmospheric, and the magnified growths of a laboratory petri-dish, the carefully layered iridescent coagulated forms take inspiration from the methodology and theory of the Rorschach ink-blot test, in a careful mediation of materiality and gesture.

Developed by Hermann Rorschach in 1921, the Rorschach test is typically used in psychoanalysis to examine the functioning of consciousness, perception, cognition and imagination in individuals.

Fairman’s series takes this notion as a starting point to ruminate the cross-over between scientific investigation, and the poetics of aesthetics, through a proposed cartography of psychological spaces and thought forms.

With a background predominantly in immersive installation and sculpture, here Coagulant Cartographies; mental mists of debris allows Fairman to employ paint pigments as test-subjects in a chance-based experiment to extend investigation into the articulation of psychological landscapes, in a dream science of the mind.

Image credits: Aimee Fairman, Nightflight, oil & acrylic on canvas, resin, Tasmanian oak, 120 x 90cm. Courtesy the artist & Beam Contemporary.