MOORE CONTEMPORARY presents ‘Relational Painting’, a solo exhibition by CAITLIN YARDLEY and her first comprehensive showing in Perth since 2015 exhibitions presented at PICA and Moana.
Yardley’s practice is one of assembly – fragments brought into relation through alignment and misalignment. ‘Relational Painting’ is anchored by a work first exhibited at Maison Louis Carré in 2017 where Yardley ‘re-made’ Fritz Glarner’s absent Relational Painting No. 62 (1953) as one of a series of placeholders in quilted black goat leather. Retaining only the titles and scale of the original works to reconvene the now dispersed collection once housed there. Located just outside Paris, Maison Louis Carré is the house (now museum) that Alvar Aalto designed for Paris art dealer Louis Carré. In her exhibition, Yardley continues her work materially with quilted goat leather and constructs new propositions and assemblages with gridded steel fragments. Installed as a constellation, the relational extends into display, insisting that meaning forms between things rather than within them – held, if only temporarily through structure and proximity.
‘Across her practice—from archival re-stagings to recent video installations—Yardley treats meaning not as inherent to objects, but as something produced through encounter. It accumulates through proximity, movement and sustained attention, emerging in the charged space where forms, histories and perceptions converge.’
~ KATRINA SCHWARZ
Read the article on Caitlin Yardley in the current issue of Art Collector.
