Sabe Lewellyn

Is this now? Is this exciting? Does this work require the public to experience it live and is it more rewarding than its documentation? Those three questions are among the many I ask when I start an idea or a project. Much of today's work seems old. Even the idea of having a discipline seems a rather dated cliché. How I create challenging new works that push expectation now seems to come from my comfort in and commitment to doubt and uncertainty as part of the practice of contemporary art.

Being comfortable with this feeling has led me to challenge some of the language of contemporary art. And try to create new conversations using subtle materials like sound and aroma in works like "blue, blue," a collection of silently vibrating bells and "Same as it ever was" a curation and collaboration of earthy location-based aromas. From large, expansive spatial gestures and solid structural works to delicate, nuanced explorations using space-hungry materials like light, sound, and aroma, there is constant diversity in the media and texture of the space in my practice.

These works bring to light the individuality of experience; the individuality and elasticity of time and space. They invoke the world outside as well as encouraging an investigation of exhibition space. They play on the edge of knowing and not knowing and with objects that have history, presence and the personal histories of the individual exploring a border between the unintelligible and the intangible.