Artist: Rebecca Clare Wallis

Bio from Artist’s website

Wallis breaks and restructures the traditional painting to reconsider expectations and question the certainty of the tangible - of surface, edges and boundaries.
She makes analogies between the painting and the Self, and considers the strange allusive subjective moments between self and Other, Subject and object, as her raw material. Her works consider the uncertain material that edges and falls between the self and it’s own otherness. This state, as a non -fixed, more fluid state, is a state that parallels the processes of the feminine body.
These momentary subjective experiences that she describes as a kind of “Unsaid Turning”, and are a kind of slipping away and resisting containment from the conditioned Self.
“It’s a universal experience at moments felt by us all subjectively, and takes the Self out of its conditioned narrative of words and out of time. Like Lacan’s theories of the Real, this momentary Turning is like the glitch in the matrix. It’s like a continuum of the Self that can’t be inserted into our culture. It’s Abjection. It’s like the difference between numbers and water. Its more, it doesn’t fit and is uncanny”

“It is when the ’I’ collapses, when who I think I am ruptures and what remains is this strange experience of facing my own existence”.