Entangled Flashes / Verwickelte Blitze, Galerie Spinnerei Archiv Massiv 2024

Ghosts whose forms are active, 2024. Oil and acrylic on board 40 x 32cm.
This exhibition explores entangled light. Between diagram and painting, lines of light and energy connect the primordial and the industrial, pointing to the exploitation of nature and technology. Intangible light consolidates into thread, weaves through stove tops, flashes from colour, shines through glaze. In the facets of crystalline paintings, light refracts through pigments, through crystal eyes, feeding our evolutionary bodies. Then, light rakes across the surface, casting shadows – to trace, to draw, to paint… and sometimes to cast shadows of doubt.
Installation view Madeleine Kelly Entangled Flashes, Archive Massiv Leipzig Spinnerei Photo: Falk Messerschmidt
Waiting for the sun to rise, 2024. Oil on canvas, 102 x 77cm. Photo: Falk Messerschmidt
At this current time, we recognise that life is bound and liberated by light – it divides and energises. Photosynthesis in leaves mirrors photoreception in eyes. The eye – light assemblage transforms into chemical energy as a material line that weaves into actions and words, hardware and codes. The convergence of sign and life is woven by spiders who spin threads of entangled flashes, the corporeal nature of geometric forms. The web, the alchemical circle, the orphic, the rotorelief and the optical unconscious bring aesthetics into the scientific fields of optics and physiology. But in a flash, it will be over… like everything else.
Madeleine Kelly: Entangled Flashes has been supported by Galerie Spinnerei Archiv Massiv, CREATE NSW and The University of Sydney, Australia.
Language lamp, 2024. Oil stick on fabric, glass, metal.
Madeleine Kelly Apparatus for the bits worth keeping, 2024. Oil and acrylic on polyester, 280 x 180 cm. Photo: Falk Messerschmidt
Spinner, 2024. Oil on board 32 x 40cm.
Installation view Madeleine Kelly Entangled Flashes, Archive Massiv Leipzig Spinnerei
Installation view Madeleine Kelly Entangled Flashes, Archive Massiv Leipzig Spinnerei Photo: Falk Messerschmidt
Apparatus for the bits worth keeping (detail), 2024. Oil and acrylic on polyester, 280 x 180 cm. Photo: Falk Messerschmidt
Madeleine Kelly Sparks beneath syntax, 2024. Oil stick on fabric, dimensions variable. Photo: Falk Messerschmidt
Shoulder, 2024. Oil and acrylic on board 40 x 32cm.
Sparks beneath syntax (detail), 2024. Oil stick on fabric, dimensions variable
Sparks beneath syntax (detail), 2024. Oil stick on fabric, dimensions variable
Stone and crystal, 2024. Oil and acrylic on board 32 x 40cm.
White-faced herron 2024. Oil and acrylic on board 40 x 32cm.
Stone and crystal II, 2024. Oil and acrylic on board 32 x 40cm.