9 MAy - 1 June 2024

CYNTHIA SCHWERTSIK & KASIA TÖNS

FRONT GALLERY

Engulfed

Engulfed is a micro-enterprise that is taking over the front space of Felt Space for three weeks in May. It offers a niche therapeutic experience that lasts approximately seven minutes.

BACK GALLERY

The Back Room

The Back Room was created as a collaborative development project over a period of two weeks in 2022. It plays with ideas of space, confinement, and entertainment as experienced within the invisible structures of societal norms, expectations, and capitalism. The character moves through the crafted space, playing with objects to entertain and distract themselves from their confinement resembling a bored, caged animal.

Artist Biography

Kasia Töns is a textile artist living and working on Peramangk and Kaurna Country. Hand embroidery and mask making are central to her practice which sits at the intersection of art, fashion, and craft. Recurring thematic interests include social impacts of digital technology use, the Anthropocene, and interpersonal/ interspecies relationship dynamics.

Cynthia Schwertsik’s work unfolds as an investigative practice of poetic response to people and place through performative actions and contemporary storytelling. In this collaborative, multivalent practice, the medium and methods follow the site-specific requirements, the context, and the conceptual ideas. Cynthia captures the simple joy of movement while reflecting on the complexities of contemporary life with humour and an attitude of care.