HANA HINDLEY

Emerging from a background in photography, Hana developed her skills with the camera into more tangible notions. 

The overall themes which have informed her practise are personal anxieties surrounding death; particularly, a repulsion of the decomposition process which the body goes through. Hana communicates these thoughts by creating installations that challenge both the viewer and herself.

The intention is for the viewer to be challenged to contemplate the desolation and isolation that the human mind contemplates in dealing with the morbid connotations surrounding our own mortality. Hana's work exists through the more juxtaposing aspects e.g. the co-existence of dark and light, both of which are inextricably linked to the ethereal, but also natural order of things. Although these anxieties initiated her work from an individual perspective, the work was influenced by the express belief that all humans are sentient, existential beings and possess a shared preoccupation with death and decay that never really leaves them. For some, this might be manifested by thoughts of the body being buried or cremated. In this sense.

Hana's work is immersive, ethereal and enigmatic. Typically working with sculpture(s) and audio/film projection, the work conveys dark, theatrical elements and seeks to reconcile thoughts and feelings surrounding her own annihilation. The reconciliation aspects entail a natural transition in seeking to move away from a morbid fascination with the process of ceasing to exist.

Hana's work attempts to re-image death and decomposition beyond a sequential representation of cruder forms, towards more transcendent installations, which ameliorate the anxiety that humans associate with the darker side of death and bodily destruction.

Taking inspiration from the darker and more contraversial artists and directors, Larry Clark and David Lynch to name a couple, (the viewer may notice an audio reference to Eraserhead (1977). Hana admires the sense of discomfort the audience are faced with when looking at works like these and aims to make the audience feel completely immersed in her work.