Caoife Power & Kari McInneny-McRae
Swimming backwards under water
28
July 2022
28
Jul
2022
19
Aug 2022
Gallery 3
Swimming backwards under water
Caoife Power & Kari McInneny-McRae
28
July 2022
28
July
2022
19
August 2022
Gallery 3
The swimming pool has become Caoife Power and Kari Lee McInneny-McRae’s regular meeting place. Through the intimacy of their friendship, and a shared experience of invisible illness this exhibition aims to challenge expectations placed upon our bodies.‘Swimming backwards under water’ explores the push and pull of the body and its constraints. The imaginative space of the artists’ moving through water is presented to you, through gestural brush strokes, physical movement, poetry (spoken word), and sculpture. Without forced pressure or set parameters, the act of creating this installation opens the possibility for sharing a perspective of time that is felt differently.Accepting slowness and discomfort, ‘Swimming backwards under water’ asks you to stop and sit, to be present within your own body, and to allow for care to be more than just the artists, but an experience that we all can be a part of.
The swimming pool has become Caoife Power and Kari Lee McInneny-McRae’s regular meeting place. Through the intimacy of their friendship, and a shared experience of invisible illness this exhibition aims to challenge expectations placed upon our bodies.‘Swimming backwards under water’ explores the push and pull of the body and its constraints. The imaginative space of the artists’ moving through water is presented to you, through gestural brush strokes, physical movement, poetry (spoken word), and sculpture. Without forced pressure or set parameters, the act of creating this installation opens the possibility for sharing a perspective of time that is felt differently.Accepting slowness and discomfort, ‘Swimming backwards under water’ asks you to stop and sit, to be present within your own body, and to allow for care to be more than just the artists, but an experience that we all can be a part of.
Caoife Power
Caoife Power is a Naarm based artist and writer whose research looks at the body and identity as feminist and queer. Using colour and layered abstraction, her work reflects on different ways of translating the world around us.
Kari Lee McInnneny-McRae
Kari Lee McInneny-McRae is a Melbourne based artist who predominantly works with clay and sculptural materials. Their work considers the way that materials can be in a state of flux, whilst paralleling the way that memories change over time. McInneny-McRae holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Drawing from Victorian College of the Arts and is currently undertaking their last year in a Bachelor of Fine Art, Ceramics from RMIT. They have shown their work in multiple galleries across Melbourne and most recently has been a finalist is the Victorian Craft Awards Exhibition 2017.