You Really Had to Be There

You Really Had to Be There

Teresa HR Lane

Opening Night Tuesday 23rd February 5.30 - 7.30
Dates Tuesday 23 - 29th February
Gallery Allpress Studio, 8 Drake St, Auckland
Website www.teresahrlane.net
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Media Enquiries Teresa Lane tcanal@xtra.co.nz, mb 021740014

Climate change, utopia, paradise, Rabelaisian, private, public, chaos, bizarre, disconnection, reward, escape, protest, grotesque, titillation all make for a good conversation. To artist Teresa HR Lane it is the essence of her two latest art shows in the dawn of her fourth year since graduating from Elam in 2012.

Currently part of a group show The Graffiti Lounge, now showing at Paul Nache Gallery, Gisborne. She once again openly invites us into her life, to see what she sees. She unfolds the acceptable and rids the conformity. With an invitation to do “what the fuck I like”, Teresa turned to her familiar environment, to fill her Bawdy House, boldly turning the table of private into public. Her muses have no regard for rules, openly tainting the cleanliness of formality, salacious behaviour and playful posing that dominates and occupies the space and or vision. She describes her work ­as an “exploration of naughtiness, titillation and suggestion”. It fluctuates between what is appropriate and what is not. Adeptly named “The Bawdy House” where the hard working men from previous shows The Might of Meekness and Men @ Work are merged into a space for experimental, free thinkers, artists, and extravagant egos, to take centre stage. Boundaries are not welcome in this house of art. With her playfully humorous drawing and experimental mixed media application she pushes further the blurred lines of her art practice.

Next week You Really Have To be There opens at Allpress Studio. Apparently it’s just a plane ride to paradise. This is the reward of hard work that is bestowed upon those that seek utopia. Teresa shares with us sixteen lineal metres of art, the continuous wave of dysfunctional utopia, which makes up this collection of mixed media paintings. The wave reaches it’ climax, and paradise comes crashing down and exposes the loneliness of one’s Eden.

This project is set on a popular beach destination, heralded for its destruction to ecology in the name of tourism. Here Teresa explores the self-acceptance of semi nakedness in an insular world that frolics in paradise with an alarming disconnection to the occupied space. Through her lenses she observes the bizarre non-interaction of people as they frolic and pace alone Up and down the beach she documents their paradise. As the common thread of disconnection arose along the shoreline, the global movement of a “Climate Change March” does nothing to rouse her muses from their stupor in paradise.

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