Monica Renaud, I play dead IX, 2021. Aqueous pigment inks on 310gsm Hahnemuhle German etching paper, 86 x 67cm, framed. Photo: Felipe Olivares. Courtesy: the artist and Galerie pompom, Sydney.
Confabulations brings to the foreground the work of four emerging Sydney-based artists whose different mediums explore notions of intimacy, physicality and belonging across time and distance. In the era of the pandemic shutdowns, while parallel solitudes materialize within the limits of confined domestic spaces, the works featured in this exhibition reanimate strategies of escapism, longing and other rituals to conjure up and reconnect, in close proximity, with geographically and socially distant sites, memories and feelings otherwise elusive, impermanent.