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Between Two Sessions
Between Two Sessions, presents a newly created body of work unfolding around the concept of the interval: the pause between one action and the next, the air held between one breath and another, the silence that settles between words. To the artist, this “in-between” is not a space of emptiness but of density.
Comprising a series of large-scale monotype works on paper alongside two interactive digital-video works, a performative intervention and a sound piece, the project reflects Mkhari’s trans-disciplinary practice and refusal of fixed disciplinary frameworks. While the artist demonstrates a confident command of diverse media, from experimental monotype printing to complex digital systems, their work is rather driven by a rhizomatic conceptual inquiry. Mkhari’s thinking materialises through abstraction, where form holds complexity without resolving it into legible narratives: whether produced through manual or digital processes, these configurations operate beyond representation, rather engaging the viewer’s perception and cognition. They do not ask to be decoded, but to be encountered in moments of suspension, pause, intervallo.
Rich in chromatic intensity and textural density, the monotypes were developed in collaboration with Roxy Kaczmarek at the David Krut Workshop, a collective studio environment in which multiple artists work simultaneously. Colour and texture function as atmosphere: indigo, red, yellow, and blue grounds, layered with organic and geometric forms, generate shifting visual choreographies.
The eight monotypes operate as a chromatic ecosystem—each work maintains its autonomy while contributing to a larger network of material and conceptual resonances. Their pairings are shaped by three organising principles: relationships of chromatic temperature, affinities in material technique, and a formal rhythm that unfolds across the installation sequence.
If suspension forms the conceptual ground of the project, it is also a gesture of kindness: a space and moment for listening as a relational act, an opening to other subjectivities, the breaking of the Narcissus mirror into a thousand pieces, a pause from the overwhelming contemporary “me” economy, proposing a way of being-with that places the other before the self.
