Remy Faint — 'Strangers', 2023

‘Shadow Play, Yellow Springs’ is a series of works that expand upon Remy’s interests in silk-based painting, fabric and ceramic sculpture. Prioritising an approach centred around the cyclical nature of his studio practice — the works evoke cues of imagined topographies, mythologies and figures in nature.

Often revisiting forms of personal and contemporary archives such as photographs, sketches, digital media and collection-based objects, the works offer insight into their creation through remnants and discrepancies in their production. The layering of materials such as silk, canvas, twine, paint, clay and glaze aim to mimic this repeated rebirth of gesture, were mediums and their compositions are constantly fluid and changing. This is iterated in the gestural compositions, where distinctions between legible and obscured forms are paired with perceptions of physical barriers such as passages and windows.