Intentos de procesar una(s) vida(s) / Attempts at processing a life(s)

Zoya Godoroja-Prieckaerts

5 July - 16 August

OPENING EVENT - 5:30pm, Friday 4 July

In a single life, we accumulate a mountain of experiences and face different obstacles that each bring distinct marks, colours, shapes, symbols, characters, and come together to amount to a multitude of lives. This is why I prefer the Spanish version of this title which translates to “attempts at processing a life” or, bracketed, “some lives” – unas vidas. We may mark these by place (“my life in Spain”), or people (“my life with Jamie”), or mental states (“those years with major depression”), perhaps a combination, or something else entirely. But ultimately, the constant flux of life means we are always shifting, always learning, always unlearning, and experiencing something new and different.

This exhibition is a documentation of a few different lives experienced over 3 years and my attempts, as the title unapologetically shares, at processing those lives – in their beauty, pain and mundanity. Through drawings, carborundum collagraphs, lithographs and monoprints, I use art as a cathartic and reflective practice to externalise emotions, access unconscious thoughts, look from new perspectives and, ultimately, to understand and appreciate what on earth has been going on in my life(s). A vulnerable series of works, I invite viewers to witness my experiences and contemplate their own with similar care and intention.

Events + Dates:

5:30pm, Friday 4 July: Exhibition Opening

All welcome!

Intentos de procesar una(s) vida(s)/ Attempts at processing a life(s)

is open 5 July to 16 August. 

Megalo is open 9.30am - 5pm | Tuesday - Saturday