Touching Space: Madeline Cardone at the COX Gallery
Touching Space is an exhibition of works in glass and drawing that study how the body encounters, interacts with and understands space and form. I continually contemplate how these experiences, though often transient, are embedded in bodily memory, and how to foster a connection between something as intangible as memory and something as physical as material.
The works in glass suggest how glass is like a skin. The surfaces frame the interplay of light and shadow in sculptural form to delineate how the body can be a mold for space, “to make visible how the world touches us”[1]. The works create a dialogue between form and skin that present a set of sensory and material dichotomies; between tactility and intangibility, lightness and weight, moment and memory, movement and stillness, the familiar and the alien.
COX Gallery Artist, Madeline Cardone
The works on paper explore a different sense of space, time and bodily interaction. The act of drawing repetitive lines denotes how the process of encountering space is one that unfolds over time, articulating the nuances and subtle, transformative qualities of light and shadow: palpitating, shimmering, shifting. Space is often expansive and encompassing, however, these works frame a sense of intimacy and invite closeness and stillness.
Madeline Cardone lives and works on Ngunnawal country. Her practice is primarily sculptural, underpinned by an interest in architectural theory and how the body encounters space and materiality. Her work engages predominantly with glass, but also extends to material explorations in ceramics, drawing, photography and performance. She often works to develop experimental and unconventional ways of making with her materials, with an inherent sensitivity towards subtle surface and refined form.
When: 5 May – 6 June, with the gallery open 9am-5pm
Where: The COX Gallery is located at 1/19 Eastlake Parade, Kingston, ACT
Photography credit: Brenton McGeachie and Catherine Feint