Saskia Haalebos, I can’t even … (diptych), 2023. Courtesy of the artist.
Saskia Haalebos
Gallery 2
Friday 26 January - Sunday 18 February 2024
Opening Thursday 25 January 2024, 6-8pm
Words, hey? Simple tools used for love, camaraderie, deceit, oppression, information, entertainment. Those shapes on paper or light from your device that turn into sounds or pictures in your head. Air that passes through vocal chords and face choreography creating vibrations that hit tiny ear hairs to communicate something: opinions, emotion, decisions, reactions, jokes.
Last January Saskia got an autism diagnosis. Suddenly parts of her life made sense. All of those times when words tumbled out awkwardly or wrong, when their tone was ill-fitted for situations, when their order seemed random, when their humour brought a laugh, when they didn’t appear at all.
un/spoken is about things not said, things she wishes she could take back, and some terrible puns.
This compelling exhibition is a direct outcome of the M16 Artspace 2023 Residency Program, which supported Saskia Haalebos throughout her nine-month tenure in our onsite studio. The residency, an integral part of our commitment to fostering artistic growth, has culminated in this captivating display of Haalebos's work. M16 Artspace takes pride in enabling artists through initiatives like these, and this exhibition is a vivid reflection of the success achieved through our residency program.
About the artist
Saskia Haalebos is a neurodiverse, multidisciplinary artist who uses animation, coding, film, performance, printmaking, text—whatever the idea calls for around themes of time, mortality, empathy and mis/communication.
She lives on unceded Ngunnawal Country in the ACT region of Australia.
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