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The impression of our arteries

David Broker
Eyeline 88
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Some exhibitions are more than the sum of their parts, reaching into specific communities of artists to open discussion over a broad spectrum of pertinent issues. The impression of our arteries is one such exhibition, bringing together sixteen women who focus on an extended metaphor that represents the complex relationship between the physical and the metaphysical. This has long been an area of interest for coordinator Debra Porch who says in her introduction this ‘…is an exhibition that questions how the heart and the mind convey significant and revealing impressions and intentions through objects, images and the senses. It reflects the circulatory patterns between those one loves, and the feelings, senses, intuition, perception, influence and the impressions that are formed from these bonds’. While this content is not solely the domain of women, the elusive zone of emotion and corporality is explored with an, at times, uncomfortable intensity that reaches into every aspect of our lives regardless of gender.

Importantly, the impression of our arteries is not the work of a curator who maintains a distance from the artists and selected works in order to provide an ‘objective’ overview. On the contrary, Porch notes that she ‘instigated’ the exhibition and as a catalyst enables the realisation of an idea in which she is very much involved. Porch has drawn upon a community of women who are friends, colleagues and students who have become friends, assembling a group that has long-term connections. The impression of our arteries can be seen as a discussion amongst contemporaries that searches for a flow of common concerns that, like the body’s circulatory system, sustain the life of the whole. Comprising both existing and new works

Debra Porch, gravitas,2017

Debra Porch, gravitas,2017. Installation view, Woolloongabba Art Gallery, 2017. Gold chain, gold-plated needle, taxidermy parakeet, gold-leaf basalt rock & silk thread, dimensions variable;

Jay Younger, L’Amour Fou un tableau domestique, 2016

Jay Younger, L’Amour Fou un tableau domestique, 2016.Still, single channel video, 3.34minutes. Courtesy the artists.