Norberto Spina sees image as never fixed or definitive: it is rather presented as an ambivalent space, in which traces of memories, dreamlike visions and cultural fragments are intertwined. In this uncertain landscape, painting takes on the role of a critical and emotional device, capable of suspending temporal and iconographic hierarchies and restoring a subjective, open, sometimes dissonant vision to the gaze.
Catherine Long’s practice is the exploration of how colour can evoke sensation, affect and mood. Her large-scale oil paintings are marked by a bold use of colour and a tactile, gestural application of paint that seeks to convey the rawness and sensuality of bodily experience. Through her work, Long engages with the process of layering, building up and erasing marks to create complex compositions that invite the viewer to participate in the process of meaning-making. Long's paintings are an exploration of the power of colour, gesture and sensation to evoke deep emotion and meaning.
