you will be flocked

by Sarina Noordhuis-Fairfax’s new exhibition at CCAS Manuka. Her drawing of a flock of starlings creates compelling illusions, as well as gritty surface qualities, as it swirls around you. It’s an irregular space which lends itself to surprising effects.

Sarina (a PhD candidate in Printmedia) explains: Time can be experienced in different ways. It can be quantified by the sweep of hands around a clock face, or experienced through the ongoing cycles of Nature. These seasonal changes are easily observed in recurring events such as the waxing and waning of the moon, but can also be noticed in ordinary moments such as the flight of birds across the sky.

This exhibition of charcoal drawings contains the traces of such a chance encounter. Transposed onto the gallery walls, the flight of a starling flock takes place within a unit of imagined time. The ghostly silhouettes contain the memory of their flight, and recall Rilke’s poetic concept that ‘silently the birds fly through us.’ This form of experiential time is not quantifiable, as it cannot be measured as a length of distance over time, for the starlings are simultaneously both here and there.

Her show (titled here + there) is open from this Wed (30th) til Sunday (4th May) from 11 – 5pm