Elsa Robinson | Reconnect

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Elsa Robinson, “Being the Dance
(detail),” 2025

mixed media installation – jute twine, brass keys, 8’ x 65’ (courtesy of the Gallery)

Opening Reception: MARCH 20, 2025 AT 6 PM

Reconnect presents an installation of soft sculptures, speaking to the theme of reconnecting and returning to the self. The work invites the viewer to arrive at their full potential, returning to the knowingness within. Crocheted loops and chains curve together as metaphors for connection internally and externally again and again– changing, moving and flowing through time and life experience. Regardless of religious beliefs or spiritual practices, the concept of the true self exists as an inherently human condition.

Using the language of feminist methodology, Elsa Robinson references the work of  women’s hands to convey positive messages and energy from her heart to yours. One of the predominant materials featured in the exhibition is jute: a natural fibre that carries the colour and scent of the Earth. Paired with jute, another recurring material in the work is brass. Like gold, brass is a symbol for truth, value, purity and divinity. The simplicity of materials and monochromatic palette repeated throughout the exhibition reveal the voices of embodied processes within the work.