Pigment Vision (installation view), Syrup Contemporary. Sydney/Eora
Pigment Vision (installation view), Syrup Contemporary. Sydney/Eora
Pigment Vision (installation view), Syrup Contemporary. Sydney/Eora
Pigment Vision (installation view), Syrup Contemporary. Sydney/Eora
Pigment Vision (installation view), Syrup Contemporary. Sydney/Eora
Elena Papanikolakis, Low pitch, 2026. Acrylic and collage on canvas, 14.5cm x 11.2cm.
Elena Papanikolakis, Angelo, 2026. Acrylic and collage on canvas, 16.6cm x 14.5cm.
Elena Papanikolakis, Bliss, 2026. Acrylic and collage on canvas, 21.2cm x 20.7cm.
Elena Papanikolakis, Awash, 2026. Acrylic and collage on canvas, 20.5cm x 16cm.
Elena Papanikolakis, Vistaki, 2026. Acrylic and collage on canvas, 8.5cm x 8.9cm.
Elena Papanikolakis, Cemented, 2026. Acrylic and collage on canvas, 16cm x 16cm.
Elena Papanikolakis, Sunken, 2026. Acrylic and collage on canvas, 21cm x 19.3cm.
Elena Papanikolakis, Swan, 2026. Acrylic and collage on canvas, 18.5cm x 17cm.
Elena Papanikolakis, Through and through and through, 2026. Acrylic and collage on canvas, 15.7cm x 18.5cm.
Elena Papanikolakis, Lay, 2026. Acrylic and collage on canvas, 18.3cm x 11.2cm.
Elena Papanikolakis, Still night pause, 2026. Acrylic and collage on canvas, 17cm x 13.4cm.
Syrup Contemporary
9 - 30 May 2026
With Gigi Malherbe, Sadie Whelan and Zara June Williams
Pigment Vision profiles four female artists working with pigment and surface as an act of seeing, knowing and comprehending the world.
These works consist of cut-outs of found imagery embedded in painterly expanses on irregularly shaped unstretched canvas. Each cut-out acts as a fragmentary anchor to its original context, challenging historical notions of photography’s capacity for proof. The limitations of this capacity are further explored in these works through explorations of the relationship between painting and photography, with painting sometimes acting as mirror or mimic, echoing elements present in the photographic imagery, and at other times acting as a point of departure, overriding the photographic imagery and moving to an ambiguous space.