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The Projection Room
Chambers Art Gallery, Christchurch
July, 2019
The Projection Room in situ
Fragments of a Memory; Rorshach, 2018, Acylic on wool with aluminium support bar, 170x140x55mm
Fragments of a Memory; The Cinema, 2018, Acylic on linen with aluminium support bar, 108x152x55m
In a recent series of work; History is Cinematic, he has focused on the interiors of cinemas as containers of images, history and memory. The resultant layers and fragments from the stencils being produced for this work, have in turn become material for another series –

The Projection Room.

Works in this exhibition are the result of an extreme drawing process in which Soltero begins by deconstructing and mining images to see what they contain. The extracted layers are scaled for rendering. Some image layers, such as the ones resulting in the large paintings on wool, become hand-cut stencils to be painted through. Image layers for the works on paper are graphite-transferred onto an Aplitape layer that is cut while applied directly to the painting/drawing before being painted through. All of these processes of looking through the layers, drawing the outlines and shapes over and over, is a type of physical tracing of the memories and histories.


©MMXXIVMark Soltero – Visual Artist