Opening Night - Multi-factor Authentication by Gayle Sachs

An exhibition of works exploring forms that reflect the duality between hiding and revealing.

The idea of requiring multiple forms of authentication to gain access interests me as a metaphor for what and how much of ourselves we expose in order to engage. In this exhibition, I expose the multiple factors that substantiate who I am.

In the work from the series ‘Evidence’, I’ve recycled evidence of private information with remnants from a document shredder.  Whilst the materials are unrecognisable in their original form, they reveal themselves as evidence of a more idiosyncratic version of self with its own personal language. Apparent lettering or codes are signs of communication whilst pathways and forms that suggest land, space or waterscape bring context to environment.

In the headshot series, I’ve used the outline format of an identity document photograph as the graphic for imposing an incoherently ironic response to facial recognition.

The paintings from the series ‘Irreparable’ – made with discarded pedestrian protection tape – are primarily about the quality of vulnerability created when that which is intended to protect breaks down. So I’ve included them in this exhibition as a fundamental step towards a personal declaration of identity.

You’re welcome to touch each work!

About the Artist

Gayle Sachs is a Melbourne based abstract artist. She works with varied media – oil, pastel, sand, plaster, household and recycled materials - on canvas. Gayle is drawn to working in a space where the obvious is undercut by other possibilities. In a sense, the material and her own experience are unravelled and woven in a series of decisions until she feels that she has reached a balance between prescribing and allowing interpretation.

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