Colour Correction (Murwillumbah, 2019)
When you fix a mistake, you make a correction, a change that rights a wrong. When you correct a misspelled word, you've made a correction. Well done! Correction also applies to punishment, which is another way to right a wrong. A correction is an improvement or a revision when there's something that needs to be fixed.
Konstantina known for powerful use of colour has put together a series of work that annotates today’s political and socio-political environment from her perspective as an Aboriginal woman, mother and activist.
Each work plays on a double entendre based on typically European interpretations of words, though uses colour to counter that European meaning.
Skin-on-Skin is a well-known practise for first contact between Western babies & their mother’s at birth; though Konstantina has exacerbated the colours of the most iconic skin tones in the world and has used them to tell a different story altogether in her contemporary dot-painting piece. This is just one example of the work included in this exhibition.
Works vary in size, but are all adorned in Konstantina’s trademark explosive and festive colour pallets and are all backed on black linen; another of Konstantina’s signatures.
This work is personal, and meaningful whilst boasting a playfulness that takes the sting out of the messages Konstantina delivers the viewer.
