Alan Ibell's series of paintings Tales from the Interior Logic depicts figures within sparse, empty dreamscapes that are beholden only to the realm of human thought.
Past Exhibition
Tūrei 16 Hune -
Hātarei 11 Hūrae
Tuesday 16 June -
Saturday 11 July
2009
Image: Alan Ibell, The Arborists from the series Tales from the interior, acrylic on hardboard, 2009.
Ibell's paintings are intended to stimulate the viewer's unconscious mind and offer a dreamlike narrative for waking life. The characters themselves, with their pale skin and blurred features, seem to occupy a limbo space somewhere between life and death, awake and asleep, as they negotiate their often absurd situations. Ibell explores the merging of reality and fantasy; the familiar and uncanny; logical and irrational; waking life and the dream.
Presented alongside Islands You and Me – A Second and a Lifetime & Future Girl. Hofko, Sinclair and Ibell explore the construction of imagined realities as a way to interrogate issues arising in everyday life, through the way belief systems, fears and desires are revealed in the content of fantasies.
Video: Documentation of Markus Hofko, Anya Sinclair & Alan Ibell's exhibitions, Installation View, 2009.
Alan Ibell
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