LAST CHANCE Artist’s Rooms: Augustine Paredes

Augustine Paredes’ artist’s room brings together his own personal histories and stories that explore his relationship to identity and family via his personal journey as a migrant, navigating constantly between time, places and identities. Gradually moving away from the camera as a main source of image-making, he has embraced a more process-based approach that focuses on the inherent qualities and agency of materials used within his work.

The exhibition’s central work is Mother – a portrait of Marife, an all-important figure in his life and one that embodies his connection to home and sense of belonging. Other works present traces of burns, verses of poems, paintings, ink stains, fibres, pearls and wool threads. Together, these works explore the artist’s reflections on guilt, desire and devotion.