MEDIA RELEASE
This artist blends painting with printmaking to reflect the shifting fabric of her past life (… or lives)
Zoya Godoroja-Prieckaerts uses art to connect and share the experiences of her life with care and vulnerability. We all collect an assemblage of experiences that shift and change constantly over a life, or perhaps, she asks, over a multitude of lives.
The exhibition by Godoroja-Prieckaerts, “Intentos de procesar una(s) vida(s) – Attempts at processing a life(s)”, is a documentation of the different lives she has led over three years. These personal prints and drawings are an invitation to reflect upon the unstable flux of our own experiences, that we learn and unlearn constantly in our daily meanderings.
Many of the works in the exhibition feature a strong connection to drawing, capturing the gestural energy of more painterly processes like monoprint, lithography and collagraph to quickly render moments in time.
Opening Friday 4 July at 5:30pm with special guest Kira Godoroja-Prieckaerts, Kenneth E Tyler Assistant Curator, National Gallery of Australia, the show asks us to contemplate the beauty, pain and mundanity of our own past experiences.
About the artist
With a practice rooted in drawing, Zoya Godoroja-Prieckaerts primarily produces works on paper, extending across a range of mediums including painting, printmaking, book-making, soft sculpture, installation and community engagement projects. Underpinning her work is a concern with emotion to create intimate works that stimulate contemplation and reflection within both the viewer and herself. Currently studying a Masters of Visual Arts Therapy, Zoya creates work to support others to connect, share, reflect and feel emboldened, whether with practical tools to get a project off the ground, or a space to be held and share vulnerabilities in order to move forward.
Exhibition: Intentos de procesar una(s) vida(s) – Attempts at processing a life(s)
Dates: 5 July – 16 August
Opening event: Friday 4 July 5:30 – 7:30pm with Kira Godoroja-Prieckaerts
Venue: Megalo Print Studio, 21 Wentworth Ave, Kingston 2604, Canberra
More info: www.megalo.org
“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.”
“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).”
Zoya Godoroja-Prieckaerts, artist
“This exhibition is a chance for Canberra’s community to experience the work of this exciting and multitalented artist. Zoya’s unique way of making prints and drawings gives them a quiet, poetic resonance. Intentos de procesar una(s) vida(s) – Attempts at processing a life(s) offers a moment to step out of our daily lives and take a breath, to linger with these personal works and think about the moments in our own lives.”
Clare Jackson, Artistic Director
Media contact:
Francis Kenna, General Manager
p: (02) 6232 6041 // 0423 336 098
