Bridget Riley has always understood the relationship that exists between our sight, our bodies and the world. In a 1967 interview with the art critic David Sylvester, the renowned British op artist remembered climbing a mountain in France. The heat transformed the land around her into a shimmer. Back in her studio, the artist painted Static 3 (1966), a constellation of black discs on a white field. As I stand in front of it, six decades on, the tiny ovals wobble. I feel off balance. The more time I spend with the painting, the less sure I am of where my edges are.
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Artists: Bridget Riley, Günther Uecker, Luis Tomasello, Ian Burn, Stanislaus Ostoja-Kotkowski, Jasper Johns, Joseph Beuys, On Kawara, Sydney Ball, Colin McCahon, Gordon Walters, Imants Tillers, Hilma af Klint, Agnes Martin, Susan Weil, Maria Abramovic and Ulay, George Milpurrurru Malibirr, John Mawurndjul, Robert Rauschenberg, Julio Le Parc, Edward Kienholz
Neha Kale is a writer and critic who lives and works on unceded Gadigal land. Her writing on art, contemporary culture and society appears widely in Australian and international publications. She was formerly editor and editor-at-large of VAULT magazine.
