“Troubling the Space'' is a collaborative exhibit by Tracy Hayes and Deborah Read and is intended to act as a ‘soft opening’ of the Art + Everywhere project. Multi-species feminist, Donna Haraway, talks about ‘troubling’ as a type of darkening and entanglement: a messing up of purity and sense of alienation of self and other. I think we all need this type of entanglement in our world – let’s find lines of kinship with which to weave ourselves and the world together.
Hayes and Read use visual and written lines to pull the viewer into their space of making in order to interrupt, pierce and enfold the mental and physical space of the viewer in order to invite lines of connection and dialogue. They both use their work to confront the issues of being born with a woman's body in this particular time period and the conflicts, pushes, pulls and overwhelm that confronts their everyday struggles.
The joint large scale mixed media work by both Hayes and Read offer a space of expansion, a generative field of play with lines and forms. The two artists intermingle, diverge, interpenetrate in ways that suggest love, joy and a type of world building with squiggling, lively forms that crawl, dance and burst across the canvas and pulse back and forth into space and the massing of marks.
