“The near objectless-ness of our tablets and smartphones are summed up by coded connectivity; a non space of which everyday meanderings occur, yet never really exist in the real.”
Hugo Koha Lindsay is interested in the point of which painting as an act, and object meets image through the logic of technological interface. A touch, swipe, shift, or enter. This body of work adopts analogous strategies in order to reclaim the abstract nature of the technological, to reinvent code as a series of painted surfaces that oscillate, merge, and morph within the interior architecture of a space.
His recent paintings act as post images, screens, models, or diagrams; an attempt to emulate the logic of aerial views and photo editing suites. Elusive topographies emerge from fattened two-dimensional surfaces whilst navigating the limits of structures (linguistic, mathematical and spatial) and the points in which they collapse.
Seeing is a distinct mode of perception, it is triggered within the feld of vision, via the presence of differentiated surfaces. Richard Wollheim considers this twofoldness. It is so named because of its dual aspect – where one discerns something simultaneously standing out in front, yet in some cases, receding behind something else, given the right conditions of seeing. Koha Lindsay proposes that the viewer to locate technological conditions of perception. To locate strategies dedicated to manipulating the performative nature of content, rather than inventing a new kind.
BIOGRAPHY
Born: Wellington, 1987
Lives: Auckland
Education: Master of Fine Arts, University of Auckland (current); Bachelor of Fine Art, Whitecliffe college of Art and Design (2012)
Awards/Distinctions: Molly Morpeth Canaday Award – Winner (2016); Wallace Art Awards – Recipient of Kaipara foundation Wallace Arts Trust Award (Atles Spital residency, Solothurn. Switzerland) (2015); Parkin Drawing Prize – Merit Award (2015); National Contemporary Art Award – Finalist (2015); Walker and Hall National Art Awards – Zini Douglas Merit Award (2014); Francis Erwin Hunt Scholarship (2011)
Collections: Tattersfeld Collection; The James Wallace Arts Trust, Auckland
Public Exhibitions: Molly Morpeth Canaday Awards Exhibition, Whakatane Library and Exhibition centre, Whakatane (2016); Best of the Best, Waiheke Community Art Gallery, Waiheke Island (2016); Charity Show, Fuzzy Vibes, Auckland (2015); Wallace Art Awards, Pah Homestead, TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre, Auckland (2015); Parkin Drawing Prize Exhibition, New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington (2015); Plimsol Island, Vero centre, Auckland (2015); Nick Coldicutt and Hugo Koha Lindsay presents // Reuben’s Bird, Rockies, Auckland (2015); National Contemporary Art Awards, Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga O Waikato, Hamilton (2015); Group Exhibition, Fuzzy Vibes / Saloon des Ferari, Auckland (2014); Walker & Hall Waiheke Art Award, Waiheke Art Gallery, Waiheke Island (2014); Recently Seen, North Art, Auckland (2013);Group Exhibition, Pah Homestead, TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre, Auckland (2013); New Acquisitions, Pah Homestead, TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre, Auckland (2011)