HOLLY YOSHIDA is welcomed to MOORE CONTEMPORARY with a solo exhibition featuring a series of recent paintings comprising still life and interiors.

Yoshida navigates a distinctive path as a contemporary painter. She is enamoured with historical painting, choosing to work in dry brushed oil on panel, sometimes employing a grisaille technique, yet she documents and quietly elevates present day mundanity. Her interiors might draw upon screen grabs from our daily life steeped in social media. A networking page for rental accommodation is just one form of fodder from which she has sourced imagery. In her hands banality meets a certain ethereal beauty. The ordinary is imbued with oneiric atmospherics that both charm and unsettle. The absences and neutrality invite a speculative and voyeuristic gaze, in which we might construct or impose narrative.

In a catalogue essay to accompany this exhibition, Dr Mardi Crocker perceives and describes the investment of time that is embedded and required in both the making and the viewing of Yoshida's paintings:
"Paying attention to what is, and isn't there, takes time. Some things, some states, demand to be noticed, will themselves to the forefront of our consciousness with brute force and within a moment. Other things hover at the edges, threaten to dissolve and disappear altogether, like ghosts in the margins of our attentional landscape. These are the things that take time, or rather, attending to them, as a presence or an absence, takes time."