Impressions

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Modern Times
Naarm/ Melbourne, Australia

September 9 — September 19
2021

As a collective, humanity has endured a destabilising experience. The challenges that have arisen from this pandemic have affected the fabric of our culture. Our ability to explore and interact freely with our environment has been compromised.
          Drawing from his personal experience, Taj Alexander has developed an emotionally charged body of work in response to these tumultuous times. These new works are defined as both physical and conceptual impressions. Represented through highly saturated impasto paintings, the works are a physical manifestation of said challenges negotiated by the artist.
          The paintings stand as an imprint, a recording from the artists mind transmuted into physical space. These imprints have revealed a complex map of the artists mental territories. They embody a sense of overwhelm and emotion through form and colour. The resulting images resemble an abstracted topography that has in-tern allowed for the expression of freedom within a new kind of landscape.
          The title Impressions also speaks to the physical act of mark-making where the artist employs a range of unique, custom-made, tools to impress texture into the surface of the painting.

Photography/ Videography- Raphael Recht
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