Shaan Bevan and Jen O’Farrell share an instinct towards transformation and an attunement to the mutable language of material and landscape. Confluence gathers their exploration of the spaces between dissolution and form, where slow and rushing waters meet, where rivers touch land, and nature rubs against the built environment.
In Confluence, Bevan and O’Farrell invite us to dwell in moments of stillness amid the rush of water through an estuary, or the blur of city lights and advertisements. Their gestures of attention contemplate what it means to return, to dwell, to reconfigure one’s sense of place, and to uncover the texture of interaction between the natural and synthetic networks that shape us. Confluence reasserts that art does not replace the spiritual but communicates it, inviting us to work with nature and time rather than to dominate it, to stand within the flux of time and matter, where bodies, minds, water, and cities continually re-form one another.
A private view will take place at the gallery on Thursday 13th November, 6-8pm. All are welcome.
