Sabine Pagan’s beautiful works are a installation exhibition of wearable, sculpture and photography. It is an exhibition to experience, connect with and engage with in person or via a personal conference with Madeline.

a[s]kin captures a body of works in constant movement. It is informed by the flow of life, my encounters and memories as a Swiss émigré to Australia and, more specifically, by my recent experience living in Tasmania by the kanamaluka | River Tamar and surrounding waterways.

The work maps this trajectory; it delves into worlds ‘in between’; the macro and micro, places – here and there, and the junctures between natural and the built environments. Remnants exposed or partially buried by the intertidal zones become a rich inventory for exploring past histories and unearth new ones. Whether rugged, smooth or grainy, the surface of these treasures calls for a sensory encounter; a first inquisitive look quickly transforms into a desire to touch and smell. These sensorial reflexes are innate to makers, for materials are the vocabulary through which stories are told and re -imagined.

a[s]kin uncovers the complex makeup of these objects, landmarks within terrains where the natural and manmade converge. Transformed into wearables, they become bodies for the body. Once moved by water, they continue their journey through contact with human skin. They carry with them past lives while taking on new meanings through intimacy and movement. The work explores skin as a site of connection: the skin of objects, of bodies, and of places, and the many layered histories that rest quietly beneath their surface.