Adrienne Kenafake

Tie Downs

2023 Found string, rope, handmade cordage, candle wicks, hair ties, found beads, garden twine, pearls 38 x 28 x 2 cm

Select works from Self Contained Unit series
Through actions of intent, the ownerless and the non-belonging metamorphose into relics and talismans: psychometric guides with the potential to emanate undisclosed and autobiographical imprinted histories.
The works in this series are made from accumulations of personal and found artifacts, conglomerations of intuitively selected objects that have been subjected to purgative methods of transformation.
Removed from their original use the items collected are interlocked with repetitious actions, handled constantly, most often through heating, burning, weaving, sewing and knotting.
Taking on new forms as spirals, circuits, loops and circles the sculptures are self-contained and act as physical, psychological and extrasensory archives. Adrienne Kenafake is a multi-disciplinary Australian artist based in South East Queensland. Working across the mediums of sculpture, performance and installation, she uses ‘normal' objects and environments to conjure the paranormal. Her work reveals private rituals, secret prayers, acts of worship, initiation and escapism; negotiating the unknown and the mundane. The anthropological observation of suburban Australia persists as a common thread within her practice.