touching in the all’ is an exhibition of new work by KINLY GREY developed during a month in residency at The Walls Art Space.
During this time, Kinly has continued their study of light phenomena, this time as an experimental embodiment of ideas inspired by hermetic philosophy. The work is situated as a visual aid to inquiry, as a site to explore and understand the universe and how it might work. Through the use of a common light device, Kinly summons histories of art, image making, and astrological study, and conflates these with a kind of contemporary poetic reasoning. Specific to The Walls, Kinly makes minimal interventions in the space, yet brings the outside in, squeezes the large into the small, and, quite literally, turns the world on its head. ‘touching in the all’ is part metaphysical inquiry, part intuitive meaning-making, and a full and humble attempt to glimpse the divine.
Kinly engages sensory experience and expanded poetics to explore art as affect. These experiments take form across mediums, including instructional works, performance, objects, and atmospheric installations. They occur in outdoor public spaces, as well as in the gallery. Placing viewer experience at their centre, Grey’s works often require participation or enactment for their realisation.
Opening times: Solar noon until thirty minutes before sunset (approximately 12 – 5:30pm) from Friday-Sunday. Or by appointment.
Closing Event: Sunday 22 September, 3 – 6pm. Complimentary tequila sunsets on arrival.
Essay by MERCY BAYARD and JUANITA EBBS
