Traditionally the cell, cloister and walled garden have been the spaces that have supported and held the rituals of reflection, prayer and meditation.
For ‘The Interior Castle’ Exhibition, a number of modest structures create thresholds, seating/kneeling niches from which to contemplate Elizabeth Presa’s installation – a meditation on the mystical writings of St Teresa of Avila.
These structures have their imaginative origins in the cave, the grotto, the arbour or the niche without intending to be any of them. They are spaces of intense and intimate bodily containment where solitude and inwardness can be experienced within the public space of communality.
As with the Carmelite sisters’ monastic life devoted to the ritual of care for others through prayer, so the artist enters into the mysterious reciprocity of materializing spirit and spiritualizing matter, transforming and lifting the deeply personal into the light and life of community and the world.
http://elizabethpresa.com/
St Kilda, Victoria2010