THIRD SPACE anchors the co-location of time, space, memory, and connection through the works of the disparate yet analogous creative practices of three artists: Jane Bartier, Amber Smith, and Anindita Banerjee.
Inspired by experiences of hidden boundaries and locations, depths and histories, and life forces that peep out, leak out and explode onto the surface of this earth, Jane Bartier looms where she walks and uses materials at hand that leave a mark to her reimagining of the air. Looking at material culture as a mass infinite network of adjacent and cosmic associations Amber Smith addresses the individual’s constant battle against the inevitable dispersal and (dis/re)organisation of the interconnected and multifarious nature of things, simultaneously creating and destroying elegant musings and clusterfucks of information. Testament to a migrant’s yearning for an authentic sense of home through unsolicited recall of involuntary memory, instigated by a place or a thing, Anindita Banerjee examines the muddled up reality of stories and experiences of the past altering perceptions of the present. Through the shared reimagining of the air, the (dis/re)organisation of information and perceptions of muddled reality, the artists examine their place in this time, they question the profundity of (un)highlighted edges and normalise the idea of the third space, of thinking and dreaming at multiple spaces at the same time.