Transient Journals| Adriane Strampp
5 -25 October, 2019
Adriane Strampp’s new exhibition Transient Journals continues her investigation of memory, connection and deterioration. The landscape has been a recurring subject in Strampp’s paintings, not in the traditional historical sense, but instead as a continuing exploration of landscapes remembered, random moments and quiet views of the ordinary observed. In these new works we see a more intimate view of the artist’s world, of places once familiar reworked through multiple layers, passages edited or dissolved, wiping away portions of the image as if leaving only that portion recalled. Although the human form remains in absentia, as in much of her earlier work, here we see traces of a human presence having been. Simon Schama (1995. pp.6/7) in Landscape and Memory states that:
Before it can ever be the repose for the senses, landscape is the work of the mind. Its scenery is built up as much from the strata of memory as from layers of rock.
Documenting transient moments and that which is impermanent is for Strampp a key to continuity, a personal archive of the small moments that secures the past. Working with old Polaroid and photographs as a starting point, Strampp edits and layers multiple images, drawing connections to piece together a personal history of a past remembered.