Marion Abraham
Collapse Euphoria

Marion Abraham is a painter living and working in Lutruwita/Tasmania who examines the inner workings of the self. Heavily influenced by classicism, art historical references and traditional painting techniques, Abraham approaches the medium in a subversive manner creating uncanny compositions of bodies in the landscape. 

A contemporary take on a romantic pastoral portrait, this new three-panel work for Artspace grapples with being ‘collapse aware’–residing between the slipperiness of the past and the instability of the present, in a moment permeated with conflict and precarity. Investigating the sensation of longing and the collapse of time, Abraham conjures a frenzied evolutionary diagram: a chronology of a painting composed of half-formed memories which cannot be fixed to a singular moment. Unidentified figures tussle and collapse onto each other, moving between moments of brutality and tenderness, suspension and animation, tension and release.