Brian Kielt
Kielt’s work explores ways of interpreting the subjectivity of experience, in particular trauma and memory. The way we perceive the world is in a constant state of flux; fact and fiction collide and merge together.
Drawing is the stage where information is filtered and deemed relevant to the potential outcome. This editing process creates voids which allow the viewer to plant their own affects and experiences. Paint and other media are brushed, rubbed, and scraped across the surface. What is left is an unusual relationship between this moment’s truth and its preceding and succeeding implications.
Drawings and paintings merge and overlap found and original imagery from eclectic sources which hint at motifs of the viewer’s own making. These fictive narratives are continually shifting and to record them is to widen the scope for understanding the many facets of trauma and the human experience.
