Kiel Fletcher

This body of work explores the slippery boundary between perception and awareness, between what we passively take in and what we consciously acknowledge. At the heart of this exhibition is the tension between listening and hearing, seeing and observing. The works explore how we define ourselves by what we choose to pay attention to, and what gets lost in the margins of our perception.

The work in this exhibition embraces abstraction as both a visual and auditory strategy to disrupt immediate recognition. Through layered textures, shifting forms, and ephemeral soundscapes, the works invite viewers to slow down and question their initial impressions. The interplay between sensory triggers, sounds without clear sources, and images without familiar anchors encourages a deeper engagement that mirrors the process of truly observing or deeply listening.

Large 2D works and sound installations are presented to the viewer as abstration while made from executing lines of code in pieces of software. Traditional computer coding languages are used to create visuals and generative sound works to fill the gallery with work that is aesthetically not often associated with the medium with which they are created.