What The Eyes Cannot See is a community collaborative storytelling project facilitated by Fremantle based artists Audrey Fernandes-Satar and Arif Satar in partnership with the Cannery Arts Centre for the Indian Ocean Craft Triennial (IOTA24).
Community members and students from Esperance Senior High School and Esperance Anglican Community School participated in art making workshops creating a series of Story Books and Memory Objects reflecting their sense of identity, culture and connection to place.
The Story Books are fashioned as a Zine, short for Magazine, an innovative way of creating a small book by folding, creasing and re-folding paper to create artistic books exploring the concept of ‘codified’ messages using a mixed media of collage drawing writing and painting.
The creation of Memory Objects by using the medium of ceramics involved the development of skills in hand building techniques to create 3D objects as ‘codified’ forms that capture the essence of individual stories exploring the concept of What The Eyes Cannot See, leading to an abstraction when individual works are compiled into collective assemblages.
The community works will be exhibited as an installation at the Cannery Arts Centre gallery alongside the artworks created by Audrey and Arif. This is a satellite exhibition for IOTA24.
Exhibition Opening Thursday 17 October 6pm
Exhibition 17 October-17 November 2024
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Digital wallpaper design and artwork : Arif Satar
Sculpture detail photography: Dan Paris
Sculpture: Bella Yeend
Poster design: Rani Fankha
All workshops are free with thanks to the Mt Burdett Foundation, IOTA (The Indian Ocean Triennial Australia) and the Cannery Arts Centre. The exhibition is part of the IOTA24 Festival: Indian Ocean Craft Triennial, supported by Lotterywest.