Simone Boon and Zoe Amor come together in an exhibition that reflects on earthbound impermanence and the quiet, generative forces shaping our sense of becoming. Whilst there is an innate simplicity to ‘becoming’ it is also a rich and complex journey into the unknown; form, memory, identity, and imagination remain in flux, continually shaped by time, experience, and perception. This exhibition is a shared Reverence for Impermanence; an offering to what cannot be held still.
Simone Boon’s abstract photographic works hover between emergence and dissolution. Influenced by her years in Asia and deeply attuned to Japanese aesthetics, as well as the philosophical insights of Henri Bergson and Søren Kierkegaard, Boon’s practice offers a meditative response to impermanence. Her images, drawn from and curated around her sculpturally draped performances, suggest a presence in motion, gently navigating the currents of time. These works offer the human form not as fixed or defined, but as a vessel of continuous unfolding.
Zoe Amor’s sculptures emerge from the raw materials of the earth, subtly transformed into bronze and ceramic forms that echo the rhythms and morphology of nature. Her use of Antique Patina on bronze and Limestone White Ceramic Shell on ceramic, emphasises the tension between elemental rawness and refined form, inviting a sensory dialogue between surface and origin. Amor’s practice is shaped by philosophical reflections on language, cultural identity, and the cyclical patterns of life. Informed by Jeanette Winterson’s idea of art as a prism through which multiple and strange worlds are revealed, her sculptural pods, originally studies of the rare Kamarooka eucalypt, evoke the enigmatic purity of Cycladic marble forms, shaped during her recent residency on the Greek islands, where she gathered pebbles and ideas.
Together, Dutch artist Simone Boon and Australian artist Zoe Amor present a layered and contemplative encounter where body, memory, and matter continually shift states. Their work invites quiet reflection: What is fixed, and what is becoming? How do we live across multiple worlds, personal, cultural, historical, elemental? And what might we carry within us, quietly transformed, into the unknown?
