Hand See Space Between | Moi Tran

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Written By Elsewhere Living Museum & Artist Residency

Hand See Space Between is a suite of colorful, textile batons constructed from tubes used to store Elsewhere’s fabric rolls. They function as open ended materials for play that encourage users to to explore various compositional effects and to create ephemeral constructions that engage the tradition of hard edge abstract paintings. Installed in Elsewhere’s third floor wood library, the work visually reinforces the vertical architectures of that space. This installation also poetically links the open ended play associated with Moi Tran’s materials to the potential for transforming the materials found in this library.

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Moi Tran
Moi Tran

Moi Tran creates work that exists between abstraction, craft, assemblage, painting, installation and drawing. Her investigations of line, volume, colour, texture, shape, repetition and form are imbued with a sense of questioning, concerned with the need to examine visual assumptions of the use of craft in spatial compositions. Incorporating the idea that cloth wears, fades, stains, stretches and becomes an intimate record of our physical presence and history, her work denotes philosophies of the unfamiliar in the familiar.Textile is the primary material in Tran’s work and traditional textile craft the main tool for manipulation. Importantly the artist insists the textile performs with more prominence than as mere grounds onto which paint would be traditionally applied. Her work considers the process, consideration and time taken in making objects link the close geography concerned with small movements of the hand and arms with the larger mental and physical geographies involved in the engagement of the broader environment. Tran also creates set and costume design for theatre and performance.

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