About
Chora Luz Carleton examines embodiment and perception at the intersection of the materiality and post human/neurodiverse consciousness.
Having graduated with a Massey University Masters of Fine Arts (hons) in 2018, Carleton’s research focused on spatial arts theories of atmosphere, phenomenology, and durational experience informed by Deleuze’s philosophy on affect. The creative work used colour and materiality to frame durational, sensory experiences and phenomena. , focusing on durational phenomena.
Her namesake, originating from Plato’s concept Khôra in Timaeus, comes from writings by Elizabeth Grosz writing, which proposes a state/being as a she/id of possibility before and at the moment of creation within a dynamic pre-spatial concept. This notion has influenced her overarching interest in examining the nature of consciousness and the experiences as an embodied observer.
Her current research positions these concepts as lenses to understand perception as a neurodiverse consciousness, leading her to examine and celebrate aspects of her own perceptual sensitivities. Recent works have taken on new materiality and scale, combining watercolour, gouache and pastel mediums to create a visual miasma of colour, which uses the layering and smudging of the pastel media to employ a transparency paired with moments of obfuscation. This aesthetic mimics the densities of how we perceive moments in mindfulness, while the watercolour develops structure and line as planes of encounter with surface and object. These visual languages attempt to tease out the strands of familiar experience that are often hidden from us in the cacophony of the mundane.
Recent Exhibitions
2023
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Exhibition at Twentysix Gallery, Wellington
A playful colour work based show with Chloe M, Petra S, Erica VZ, Baz V and Suzzane L.
2022
Thickets and Clearings
Exhibition at Twentysix Gallery, Wellington
A solo exhibition. Process based environmental study of the Twentysix gallery space.
Idea Journal
Commissioned for journal cover artwork.
2019
Wrote
Academy of Fine Art Parkin Drawing Prize 2019 Finalist
2018
Gloaming
Debut solo exhibition at Toi Pōneke Art Centre, Wellington
An exploration of the state of seeing in semi-darkness the work presented was both text, image and space.