Dionisia Salas
Of mouth and mind
22 nov. 2024 — 1 feb. 2025
Dionisia Salas
Of mouth and mind
22 nov. 2024 — 1 feb. 2025
Image: Dionisia Salas, In the hellebores, 2024, oil on canvas, 102 x 102 cm. Photo: Stephen Best. Image courtesy and © the artist.
Image: Dionisia Salas, In the hellebores, 2024, oil on canvas, 102 x 102 cm. Photo: Stephen Best. Image courtesy and © the artist.
Dionisia Salas
Of mouth and mind
22 nov. 2024 — 1 feb. 2025
Of mouth and mind sees Braidwood-based artist Dionisia Salas explore the interplay between the physical and psychological aspects of the lived experience.
The exhibition establishes drawing as the foundational underpinning of Salas’ practice. The lines and forms created whilst drawing mine the artist’s subconscious and create physical articulations of the absurd. Salas’ energetic compositions are at once depictions of the landscape, the body and the mind. The works in the exhibition embrace wandering lines that dip in and out of figuration and abstraction.
Across paintings and drawings, the works in Of mouth and mind straddle the divide between alluring and abject. Salas’ seductive colours and sumptuous forms entice audiences, with loose and automatic mark making expressing feelings of desire, movement and ecstasy. Through veils of colour and areas of texture, the works simultaneously reveal allusions a broader spectrum of physical experiences, with fragments signifying hair, bruises, blood and breath.
Translating ideas through paint, forms bulge out of shape and colours coalesce and collapse, merging to form areas of brown and grey. Outlines begin to blur and develop fleshy, built-up muscle that alludes to the physical world. Consciousness and intellect wrestle with the unconscious and gestural; the dichotomy of mind and body are fully present, made form in a sticky mass.
Of mouth and mind is a major solo exhibition of artist Dionisia Salas. The exhibition is accompanied by a publication featuring newly commissioned texts by leading Australian arts writers.
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Installation View Dionisia Salas ‘Of Mouth and Mind’ featuring ‘no tongue bitter she’, 2023, oil on canvas, collection of the artist; ‘Untitled 7’, 2024, oil on board, collection of the artist and ‘Untitled 2’, 2022, oil on board, collection of the artist. Photography Silversalt Photography.
Installation View Dionisia Salas ‘Of Mouth and Mind’ featuring ‘no tongue bitter she’, 2023, oil on canvas, collection of the artist; ‘Untitled 7’, 2024, oil on board, collection of the artist; ‘Untitled 2’, 2022, oil on board, collection of the artist; ‘With spend mouths’, 2023, oil on canvas, Courtesy of Gregory Buchhorn; ‘Untitled 1’, 2024, gouache on paper, collection of the artist and Untitled No 14’, 2024, gouache and ink on paper, collection of the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View Dionisia Salas ‘Of Mouth and Mind’ featuring ‘Untitled 2’, 2022, oil on board, collection of the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View Dionisia Salas ‘Of Mouth and Mind’ featuring ‘Untitled 1’, 2024, gouache on paper, collection of the artist and ‘Untitled No 14’, 2024, gouache and ink on paper, collection of the artist; ‘Untitled 6’, 2024, gouache and ink on paper, collection of the artist; ‘Untitled 11’, 2024, gouache on paper, collection of the artist; ‘Untitled 4’, 2024, gouache on paper, collection of the artist; ‘Untitled 5’, 2024. Gouache on paper, collection of the artist; ‘Untitled 9’, 2024, gouache and ink on paper, collection of the artist and ‘Untitled 10’, 2021, gouache and ink on paper, collection of the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View Dionisia Salas ‘Of Mouth and Mind’ featuring ‘Untitled No 14’, 2024, gouache and ink on paper, collection of the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View Dionisia Salas ‘Of Mouth and Mind’ featuring ‘Untitled 6’, 2024, gouache and ink on paper, collection of the artist; ‘Untitled 11’, 2024, gouache on paper, collection of the artist; ‘Untitled 4’, 2024, gouache on paper, collection of the artist; ‘Untitled 5’, 2024, gouache on paper, collection of the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View Dionisia Salas ‘Of Mouth and Mind’ featuring ‘To fall in spring’, 2022, oil on canvas, Collection Goulburn Regional Art Gallery Purchased 2022; ‘Untitled 12’, 2024, gouache and ink on paper, collection of the artist; ‘Untitled 13, 2024, gouache and ink on paper, collection of the artist and ‘You, me’, 2023, oil on canvas, collection of the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View Dionisia Salas ‘Of Mouth and Mind’ featuring ‘Untitled 12’, 2024, gouache and ink on paper, collection of the artist and ‘Untitled 13, 2024, gouache and ink on paper, collection of the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View Dionisia Salas ‘Of Mouth and Mind’ featuring 'To fall in spring', 2022, oil on canvas. Goulburn Regional Art Gallery Collection; 'Untitled 12', 2024, gouache and ink on paper, collection of artist; 'Untitled 13', 2024, gouache and ink on paper, collection of the artists; 'You, me,' 2023, oil on canvas, collection of the artist and 'Of mouth and mind',2024, oil on canvas, private collection. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View Dionisia Salas ‘Of Mouth and Mind’ featuring 'Of mouth and mind',2024, oil on canvas, private collection; ‘Night Jar’, 2024, oil on canvas, collection of the artist and ‘Dream Fruit’, 2024, oil on canvas, collection of the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View Dionisia Salas ‘Of Mouth and Mind’ featuring ‘Night Jar’, 2024, oil on canvas, collection of the artist and ‘Dream Fruit’, 2024, oil on canvas, collection of the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View Dionisia Salas ‘Of Mouth and Mind’ featuring ‘Night Jar’, 2024, oil on canvas, collection of the artist; ‘Dream Fruit’, 2024, oil on canvas, collection of the artist and ‘to swim inside’, 2024, oil on canvas, collection of the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View Dionisia Salas ‘Of Mouth and Mind’ featuring ‘Night Jar’, 2024, oil on canvas, collection of the artist; ‘Dream Fruit’, 2024, oil on canvas, collection of the artist; ‘to swim inside’, 2024, oil on canvas, collection of the artist; ‘In the hellebores’, 2024, oil on canvas, private collection and ‘Cry milk stains’, oil on canvas, collection of the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View Dionisia Salas ‘Of Mouth and Mind’ featuring ‘to swim inside’, 2024, oil on canvas, collection of the artist and ‘In the hellebores’, 2024, oil on canvas, private collection. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View Dionisia Salas ‘Of Mouth and Mind’ featuring ‘Cry milk stains, 2024, oil on canvas, collection of the artist; Comic Fibre, 2024, oil on canvas, collection of the artist and ‘skin thinned’, oil on canvas, collection of the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View Dionisia Salas ‘Of Mouth and Mind’ featuring Dionisia Salas ‘to swim inside’, 2024, oil on canvas, collection of the artist;’ In the hellebores’, 2024, oil on canvas, Private Collection; ‘Cry milk stains’, 2024, oil on canvas, collection of the artist; ‘Comic Fibre’, 2024, oil on canvas, collection of the artist and ‘skin thinned’, oil on canvas, collection of the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View Dionisia Salas ‘Of Mouth and Mind’ featuring ‘In the hellebores’, 2024, oil on canvas, Private Collection; ‘Cry milk stains’, 2024, oil on canvas, collection of the artist and ‘Comic Fibre’, 2024, oil on canvas, collection of the artist. Photograph: Silversat Photogrpahy
Installation View Dionisia Salas ‘Of Mouth and Mind’ featuring ‘In the hellebores’, (detail) 2024, oil on canvas, Private Collection. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View Dionisia Salas ‘Of Mouth and Mind’ featuring ‘skin thinned’, oil on canvas, collection of the artist; ‘Untitled 5’, 2024, oil on board, collection of the artist; ‘Untitled 4’, 2024, oil on board, collection of the artist; ‘Untitled 3’, 2024, oil on board, collection of the artist and ‘Untitled 6’, 2024, oil on board, collection of the artist and Installation view Sammy Hawker ‘Conversations with bees’. Featuring Telling the Bees #2’, pigment inkjet print on archival cotton rag; Telling the Bees #1; pigment inkjet print on archival cotton rag, courtesy of the artist; Honeycomb #2’, pigment inkjet print on archival cotton rag, courtesy of the artist and ‘Conversations with bees’, (detail), single channel video, courtesy of the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View Dionisia Salas ‘Of Mouth and Mind’ featuring; ‘Untitled 5’, 2024, oil on board, collection of the artist; ‘Untitled 4’, 2024, oil on board, collection of the artist; ‘Untitled 3’, 2024, oil on board, collection of the artist and ‘Untitled 6’, 2024, oil on board, collection of the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Image: Dionisia Salas, In the hellebores, 2024, oil on canvas, 102 x 102 cm. Photo: Stephen Best. Image courtesy and © the artist.
Dionisia Salas
Of mouth and mind
22 nov. 2024 — 1 feb. 2025
Of mouth and mind sees Braidwood-based artist Dionisia Salas explore the interplay between the physical and psychological aspects of the lived experience.
The exhibition establishes drawing as the foundational underpinning of Salas’ practice. The lines and forms created whilst drawing mine the artist’s subconscious and create physical articulations of the absurd. Salas’ energetic compositions are at once depictions of the landscape, the body and the mind. The works in the exhibition embrace wandering lines that dip in and out of figuration and abstraction.
Across paintings and drawings, the works in Of mouth and mind straddle the divide between alluring and abject. Salas’ seductive colours and sumptuous forms entice audiences, with loose and automatic mark making expressing feelings of desire, movement and ecstasy. Through veils of colour and areas of texture, the works simultaneously reveal allusions a broader spectrum of physical experiences, with fragments signifying hair, bruises, blood and breath.
Translating ideas through paint, forms bulge out of shape and colours coalesce and collapse, merging to form areas of brown and grey. Outlines begin to blur and develop fleshy, built-up muscle that alludes to the physical world. Consciousness and intellect wrestle with the unconscious and gestural; the dichotomy of mind and body are fully present, made form in a sticky mass.
Of mouth and mind is a major solo exhibition of artist Dionisia Salas. The exhibition is accompanied by a publication featuring newly commissioned texts by leading Australian arts writers.
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Installation View Dionisia Salas ‘Of Mouth and Mind’ featuring ‘no tongue bitter she’, 2023, oil on canvas, collection of the artist; ‘Untitled 7’, 2024, oil on board, collection of the artist and ‘Untitled 2’, 2022, oil on board, collection of the artist. Photography Silversalt Photography.
Installation View Dionisia Salas ‘Of Mouth and Mind’ featuring ‘no tongue bitter she’, 2023, oil on canvas, collection of the artist; ‘Untitled 7’, 2024, oil on board, collection of the artist; ‘Untitled 2’, 2022, oil on board, collection of the artist; ‘With spend mouths’, 2023, oil on canvas, Courtesy of Gregory Buchhorn; ‘Untitled 1’, 2024, gouache on paper, collection of the artist and Untitled No 14’, 2024, gouache and ink on paper, collection of the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View Dionisia Salas ‘Of Mouth and Mind’ featuring ‘Untitled 2’, 2022, oil on board, collection of the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View Dionisia Salas ‘Of Mouth and Mind’ featuring ‘Untitled 1’, 2024, gouache on paper, collection of the artist and ‘Untitled No 14’, 2024, gouache and ink on paper, collection of the artist; ‘Untitled 6’, 2024, gouache and ink on paper, collection of the artist; ‘Untitled 11’, 2024, gouache on paper, collection of the artist; ‘Untitled 4’, 2024, gouache on paper, collection of the artist; ‘Untitled 5’, 2024. Gouache on paper, collection of the artist; ‘Untitled 9’, 2024, gouache and ink on paper, collection of the artist and ‘Untitled 10’, 2021, gouache and ink on paper, collection of the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View Dionisia Salas ‘Of Mouth and Mind’ featuring ‘Untitled No 14’, 2024, gouache and ink on paper, collection of the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View Dionisia Salas ‘Of Mouth and Mind’ featuring ‘Untitled 6’, 2024, gouache and ink on paper, collection of the artist; ‘Untitled 11’, 2024, gouache on paper, collection of the artist; ‘Untitled 4’, 2024, gouache on paper, collection of the artist; ‘Untitled 5’, 2024, gouache on paper, collection of the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View Dionisia Salas ‘Of Mouth and Mind’ featuring ‘To fall in spring’, 2022, oil on canvas, Collection Goulburn Regional Art Gallery Purchased 2022; ‘Untitled 12’, 2024, gouache and ink on paper, collection of the artist; ‘Untitled 13, 2024, gouache and ink on paper, collection of the artist and ‘You, me’, 2023, oil on canvas, collection of the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View Dionisia Salas ‘Of Mouth and Mind’ featuring ‘Untitled 12’, 2024, gouache and ink on paper, collection of the artist and ‘Untitled 13, 2024, gouache and ink on paper, collection of the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View Dionisia Salas ‘Of Mouth and Mind’ featuring 'To fall in spring', 2022, oil on canvas. Goulburn Regional Art Gallery Collection; 'Untitled 12', 2024, gouache and ink on paper, collection of artist; 'Untitled 13', 2024, gouache and ink on paper, collection of the artists; 'You, me,' 2023, oil on canvas, collection of the artist and 'Of mouth and mind',2024, oil on canvas, private collection. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View Dionisia Salas ‘Of Mouth and Mind’ featuring 'Of mouth and mind',2024, oil on canvas, private collection; ‘Night Jar’, 2024, oil on canvas, collection of the artist and ‘Dream Fruit’, 2024, oil on canvas, collection of the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View Dionisia Salas ‘Of Mouth and Mind’ featuring ‘Night Jar’, 2024, oil on canvas, collection of the artist and ‘Dream Fruit’, 2024, oil on canvas, collection of the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View Dionisia Salas ‘Of Mouth and Mind’ featuring ‘Night Jar’, 2024, oil on canvas, collection of the artist; ‘Dream Fruit’, 2024, oil on canvas, collection of the artist and ‘to swim inside’, 2024, oil on canvas, collection of the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View Dionisia Salas ‘Of Mouth and Mind’ featuring ‘Night Jar’, 2024, oil on canvas, collection of the artist; ‘Dream Fruit’, 2024, oil on canvas, collection of the artist; ‘to swim inside’, 2024, oil on canvas, collection of the artist; ‘In the hellebores’, 2024, oil on canvas, private collection and ‘Cry milk stains’, oil on canvas, collection of the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View Dionisia Salas ‘Of Mouth and Mind’ featuring ‘to swim inside’, 2024, oil on canvas, collection of the artist and ‘In the hellebores’, 2024, oil on canvas, private collection. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View Dionisia Salas ‘Of Mouth and Mind’ featuring ‘Cry milk stains, 2024, oil on canvas, collection of the artist; Comic Fibre, 2024, oil on canvas, collection of the artist and ‘skin thinned’, oil on canvas, collection of the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View Dionisia Salas ‘Of Mouth and Mind’ featuring Dionisia Salas ‘to swim inside’, 2024, oil on canvas, collection of the artist;’ In the hellebores’, 2024, oil on canvas, Private Collection; ‘Cry milk stains’, 2024, oil on canvas, collection of the artist; ‘Comic Fibre’, 2024, oil on canvas, collection of the artist and ‘skin thinned’, oil on canvas, collection of the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View Dionisia Salas ‘Of Mouth and Mind’ featuring ‘In the hellebores’, 2024, oil on canvas, Private Collection; ‘Cry milk stains’, 2024, oil on canvas, collection of the artist and ‘Comic Fibre’, 2024, oil on canvas, collection of the artist. Photograph: Silversat Photogrpahy
Installation View Dionisia Salas ‘Of Mouth and Mind’ featuring ‘In the hellebores’, (detail) 2024, oil on canvas, Private Collection. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View Dionisia Salas ‘Of Mouth and Mind’ featuring ‘skin thinned’, oil on canvas, collection of the artist; ‘Untitled 5’, 2024, oil on board, collection of the artist; ‘Untitled 4’, 2024, oil on board, collection of the artist; ‘Untitled 3’, 2024, oil on board, collection of the artist and ‘Untitled 6’, 2024, oil on board, collection of the artist and Installation view Sammy Hawker ‘Conversations with bees’. Featuring Telling the Bees #2’, pigment inkjet print on archival cotton rag; Telling the Bees #1; pigment inkjet print on archival cotton rag, courtesy of the artist; Honeycomb #2’, pigment inkjet print on archival cotton rag, courtesy of the artist and ‘Conversations with bees’, (detail), single channel video, courtesy of the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View Dionisia Salas ‘Of Mouth and Mind’ featuring; ‘Untitled 5’, 2024, oil on board, collection of the artist; ‘Untitled 4’, 2024, oil on board, collection of the artist; ‘Untitled 3’, 2024, oil on board, collection of the artist and ‘Untitled 6’, 2024, oil on board, collection of the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.