MASON KIMBERFUTURE RELICS9 – 26 MAY 2018

Even the most elastic of superbeings, time travellers, have rules to obey. This license to vanish out of rooms and bounce into new eras is restricted by a simple quantum catch: their bodies can move through space and time, but their surrounding architecture must stay behind, in a previous timeline.

How then does one capture the memory of a place, the grasp of it? How can the fragments of a room, a pathway, a building, or a view be smuggled into new memories?

Mason Kimber is anchored by the inbetweenness of architecture and memory: places that serve as timestamps, surfaces that form sentiment, colours that trigger. Born and raised in Perth, the artist moved home several times (as children of divorce often do), before decamping to Sydney a decade ago, where the erratic city rental climate had him hopping studios every year. Kimber has since devel-oped a painting practice that deals with the collision of experienced places — interiors and exteriors that have become sanctuaries for the artist.

For Future Relics, Kimber mines his Bondi studio environment for artifacts, creating impressions from ornamental motifs, limestone columns, bubbled windows, and pavement patterns. They are casted into moulds, along with personal effects like paint palettes, ceramic mugs, plastic particles, and fauna. He then breaks and remixes the pieces with casted archives from past studios. Assem-bled excavation-style on the ground, they are enshrined as islands of form and texture, through the process of pouring, marking, and setting.

What arises is a new dialect of relics. Bordered, shallow-pooled slabs that rupture, swell, and splinter like maps of a re-envisioned city or a memory puzzle that minces before with now. Presented as wall-based panels, they clasp you into gaze with their skatey gestures, boney curves, and chromatic grouping; they allude to Kimber’s surrounding architecture of historic buildings and the sea. Through his practice, Kimber has found a way, perhaps a loophole, to stamp time and collect a place.

Mariam Arcilla

SOPHIE GANNON GALLERY2 Albert Street Richmond VIC 3121 Australia Telephone +613 9421 0857info@sophiegannongallery.com.au www.sophiegannongallery.com.au

Mason KimberIvory/Slide, 2018

acrylic, resin, synthetic polymer, gypsum and glass fibre on plywood65 x 44.7 cm

$3,200 incl. GST

Mason KimberAmber/Shadow, 2018

acrylic, resin, synthetic polymer, gypsum and glass fibre on plywood65 x 44.7 cm

$3,200 incl. GST

Mason KimberParticle/Sway, 2018

acrylic, resin, synthetic polymer, gypsum and glass fibre on plywood65 x 44.7 cm

$3,200 incl. GST

Mason KimberCornice/Contour (Sapphire), 2018

acrylic, resin, synthetic polymer, gypsum and glass fibre on plywood65 x 44.7 cm

$3,200 incl. GST

Mason KimberCoral/Cascade (Aqua), 2018

acrylic, resin, synthetic polymer, gypsum and glass fibre on plywood65 x 44.7 cm

$3,200 incl. GST

Mason KimberPorta/Pivot, 2018

acrylic, resin, synthetic polymer, gypsum, sand, lime plaster and glass fibre on plywood65 x 44.7 cm

$3,200 incl. GST

Mason KimberConcrete/Swing, 2018

acrylic, resin, synthetic polymer, gypsum and glass fibre on plywood65 x 44.7 cm

$3,200 incl. GST

Mason KimberCorner/Drift, 2018

acrylic, resin, synthetic polymer, gypsum, sand and glass fibre on plywood65 x 44.7 cm

$3,200 incl. GST

Mason KimberPavement/Pastel, 2018

acrylic, flashe, resin, synthetic polymer, gypsum, ceramics and glass fibre on plywood65 x 44.7 cm

$3,200 incl. GST

Mason KimberRelic/Replay, 2018

acrylic, flashe, resin, synthetic polymer, gypsum and glass fibre on plywood65 x 44.7 cm

$3,200 incl. GST

SOPHIE GANNON GALLERY2 Albert Street Richmond VIC 3121 Australia Telephone +613 9421 0857info@sophiegannongallery.com.au www.sophiegannongallery.com.au