For over 40 years Eugene Carchesio has been creating small-scale watercolours and cardboard constructions, piquing curiosity and inspiring quiet deliberation. In the exhibition your face is a ghost, the artist presents a new body of wall-mounted sculptures alongside cyclical works on paper, each demonstrative of the artist’s relentless pursuit of the minimal through repetition. Transforming commonplace yet ambivalent subjects, Carchesio invigorates the minutiae of his everyday surroundings. A cursory map of Australia is articulated seventeen times, ingraining its contours through the lyrical curvatures of watercolour paint. Made in light of the Voice referendum in October 2023, Carchesio presents a potent form significantly reduced. This dearth of detail fosters a ghostly sense of absence and unfamiliarity, channelling notions of detachment and uncertainty. The artist proposes a lulling, surreal visual narrative as conduit to invite further introspection, furtively interrogating the equivocal symbolism imposed by this iconic silhouette. Carchesio’s pared back formal tradition is one that is steeped in mystery and mythology with enduring, often paradoxical, qualities of presence and weightlessness. Harnessing oppositional forces, Carchesio utitlises materials and frameworks both unremarkable and ephemeral. your face is a ghost distils a lexicon of signs and symbols in a continuation of a long-standing material and conceptual experimentation, inviting in the viewer to propose their own solutions to rhetorical problems.