“We live it. We breathe it. We talk about it, because it festers inside our minds and we can’t stop…It’s an energy. It’s an energy that becomes this ball.”
These are the words from a conversation between Riley Grant, Claire and Abi Meekel. Referring to themselves as the Conversationists, Riley, Claire and Abi along with Kayla Armstrong and Adilson De Olivieira will be turning Glory blue for their exhibition One Fish Two Fish Blaue Fish Blue Fish.
The obsession over blue began with a concoction of whatsapp conversations, readings about the rhizome and teasing out understandings of semiotics earlier this year. In a sense, the whole process from conceptualization to the production of their works and soundscapes can be seen as an artwork being sculpted through time and digital codes. Thinking about conversations around the colour blue may seem confusing, but this exhibition will reveal that it more than an obsession with a colour.
They are exploring blue as an image, as a sound, as a feeling and something more. With each combination of images, soundscapes and feelings, the meaning of blue is detangled and entangled once again, but never entangled in the same way. The exhibition is therefore, not so much a fixation on the word blue, but more an exploration of semiotics; choosing to work with blue and unfold what blue signifies to themselves and others.
In a way they are thinking about changing the meaning of blue…or not.
Be sure to check out their exhibition at Glory on the 6th of July. Below is a teaser and an invitation to see, feel and experience blue in a new way.