Savaad Felich
Inversion
19 October - 6 November 2022
G4
Opening Night
Friday 21 October | 6pm – 8pm
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Savaad’s arts practice has primarily been devoted to figurative sculpture and just prior to and during the long COVID lockdowns in Victoria a strong fascination and experimentation with abstract collage unfolded. This new passage rejuvenated and broadened an already long arts practice and employed an array of modern, vintage and second hand fashion magazines. Initially many of these new collage artworks were overcrowded and in a sense became sacrificial musings until a looser vertical style developed that worked well. Interesting shapes emerged as slicing,
matching and juxtaposing images and colours occurred. The completed collage works are professionally photographed and giclée printed onto museum archival paper and skilfully framed.
In a sense the assemblage and constructive process employed in Savaad’s sculptural practice transferred to collage. The other aspect relating to this body of work is the examination of gender conditioning and non-conformity with the social conditioning that ensues from birth, to direct who we are. It is often unquestioned and accepted as status quo, of how things are.
The LGBTQIA community questions the structure of binary gender norms. Savaad recognizes themself as encompassing aspects of both genders and feel whole and enriched for it.
“When l think of my gender, l imagine a never-ending swirl of these two energy forces within me. Some days, yin dominates, other days, yang does, and sometimes, the two stand in equal measure. Though it’s not something l can control, it is something that l’m learning to articulate”.
- Mintzu Chen, New York based multidisciplinary artist.
Artist Bio
Savaad Felich’s arts practice spans almost forty years predominantly in sculpture, employing a
process of lamination, construction / assemblage while utilising an array of recycled and found objects.
Savaad was also former curator for Yering Stations arts program in the Yarra Valley which included the annual Yering Station Sculpture Exhibition & Awards established in 2001 and the Cellar Door gallery from 2008 – 2015. Recently during the COVID pandemic and associated lockdowns Savaad developed a strong interest in Abstract Collage and began a period of play and experimentation around fashion in the studio.
Contact
Phone : (03) 9482 3550
mail@redgallery.com.au
Address
157 St Georges Rd
Fitzroy North, Victoria, 3068
Map
How to get here
Tram: route 11
Stop 21 just north of Edinburgh Gardens
Melway ref: 30B12
Parking in nearby streets
Bus: 504 (Reid Street)
