Elefteria Vlavianos, Syat Nova, 2017
Nuha Saad is intrigued by how our thoughts and behaviours are often influenced by unconscious reactions to spatial and colour stimuli. In Saad’s works, ordinary architectural elements are decontextualised and reworked to explore how spatial features and colours collude to construct a sense of place or cultural identity.
Sherna Teperson uses surface and colour vibration to access sensory memory. She approaches colour as a tactile, sensate material that influences the poetics of form, and the perception or deception of space.
Elefteria Vlavianos approaches painting as a form of visual translation, operating between the representational and the abstract. Through her long-term investigation into colour vibration she creates liminal, veil-like paintings that edify both presence and absence.
For Colour-Bind, Saad, Teperson, and Vlavianos come together to present a suite of paintings, sculptures, and installations that reveal the material and sensate potential of colour and abstraction. Throughout, the artists’ distinct and varied chromatic, compositional and textural approaches are juxtaposed to conjure alchemy, energy and tension – breathing life into the words of artist Susan Hiller: “to experience a hit of ‘pure’ colour… is intoxicating.”