MEMORY LINES

Laura Hargrave

The Cube
March 19 to June 18, 2016

Curated by Craig Willms, Assistant Curator, Kamloops Art Gallery

Through her experimental drawings, Laura Hargrave recreates the experience of memory loss. With her back to the drawing surface Hargrave renders life-size figures as a way of challenging the normal observation and recording process of image creation. She draws blindly, relying only on memory for reference so that the resulting imagery takes on a mix of blind contour drawing and continuous line. The drawings are skewed and proportions take on a slightly altered look, playing with their relationship in space. Through this practice, Hargrave explores the loss of memory that comes with age and refl ects on its effects on friends and relatives. Figures in the drawings appear to wander the gallery as if lost or searching for something, both fl oating and grounding themselves across the walls of the gallery.