Title

Kati Thamo: Confabulations.

Venues

Beaver Galleries [2] (17 February 2005 – 7 March 2005)

Date

(2005)

Summary

Single-artist exhibition. Located: Australia (ACT). Prints.

Country of context

Australia

Abstract

About the exhibition

Kati Thamo explores the role narrative has in our lives and in the construction of memories. Of Hungarian parentage, Kati draws on a rich vein of inherited stories to illustrate the way our memories are reconstructed from bits and pieces of fragmented stories. The title of this exhibition refers to a condition whereby gaps in memory are filled with imaginary experiences consistently believed to be true; “…I have created my own fanciful fabrications of the past, based on unreliable memories and skewed versions, as indeed all histories are.” These richly textural prints are achieved by way of collaging a variety of materials onto a cardboard base plate, a form of intaglio and relief printing. Fabric plays a large part in the work, patched or quilted backgrounds overlaid with a profusion of characters; “…a tapestry of interwoven voices stretching from Eastern Europe through to the Australian bush.”

[Beaver Galleries media, 2005].

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04 Aug 2024