tightly wound
Metro Arts
29 March - 10 May 2025
97 Boundary St, West End, QLD 4101
tightly wound was developed in partnership with Metro Arts and Firstdraft.
29 March - 10 May 2025
97 Boundary St, West End, QLD 4101
tightly wound was developed in partnership with Metro Arts and Firstdraft.
tightly wound features textile works from Danish Quapoor’s recent good grief series, recontextualising them amongst related works.The title references both the laborious process of creating the works and the related personal memories, anxieties and catalytic concepts explored within. These include grief, memorialisation, prophesies, expectations, gender roles and sexuality.
The works within tightly wound were initially creative responses to a series of anxiety-driven catalysts and memories. These included Quapoor’s father’s unexpected death, unwelcome revelations of the artist’s bisexuality and enforced heteronormative gender roles in his upbringing.
Quapoor’s use of repurposed baling twine for these works is significant, memorialising bittersweet memories of farming and baling lucerne hay with his father. The artist slowly, repetitively builds up the monochromatic forms by coiling and stitching the twine onto itself. These laborious processes do enable some catharsis for Quapoor, who also tempers and obfuscates the personal to embed a life-affirming levity within.
Gallery webpage | Roomsheet
The works within tightly wound were initially creative responses to a series of anxiety-driven catalysts and memories. These included Quapoor’s father’s unexpected death, unwelcome revelations of the artist’s bisexuality and enforced heteronormative gender roles in his upbringing.
Quapoor’s use of repurposed baling twine for these works is significant, memorialising bittersweet memories of farming and baling lucerne hay with his father. The artist slowly, repetitively builds up the monochromatic forms by coiling and stitching the twine onto itself. These laborious processes do enable some catharsis for Quapoor, who also tempers and obfuscates the personal to embed a life-affirming levity within.
Gallery webpage | Roomsheet
All photographs: Louis Lim.
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