Zara June Williams

COMA is pleased to present a solo exhibition, titled We Forget We Know, by Zara June Williams (b. 1990), on view 3 March – 1 April in the Chippendale gallery. This is the artist’s third presentation with COMA and her first in this gallery space. 

We Forget We Know speaks to the subconscious knowing that lies beneath uncertainty and doubt, and acknowledges an experience that is familiar to painters, that of being led forward by a sureness that is almost mythical and buried beneath layers of doubt. It considers the existence of a certain knowing that lays dormant, within us. Like the stars – they do not cease to exist, but their visibility lies in flux.

Reckoning with habit and from it the illusion of control, in We Forget We Know the knowledge of the inevitability of failure and a subsequent letting go is present. The works here depend heavily on acceptance and at times a celebration of these failures. In the process of creation the artist utilises repetition and rhythm to build familiarity and comfort, bracing for constant changes and building internal antidotes to the volatile nature of reality.

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A corresponding text to the exhibition written by Emma Finneran can be read HERE.