Sibling

Familial relationships are some of our most intimate and entangled connections. They impact our lives in complex and often unseen ways, profoundly affecting aspects of our identities and moral character.

Henry Wolff’s project ‘Sibling’ attends to these entanglements, gently navigating the artist’s relationship to their sister, Ingrid.

Gesture is often used by the artist as a language of the body. Here it offers forth physical metaphors of sibling camaraderie and insights into the intra-acting narratives of these protagonists. But the paradox of ‘Sibling’ is that in gesture’s equally opaque vernacular, it guards the pairs vulnerability, keeping ambiguous the nuanced rituals and understandings of their relationship.

Wolff’s practice is concerned with images that articulate honest vulnerability in their participation with the world/s of their collaborators. With an empathetic observational methodology, they produce works that attend to the power of marginality and diffraction within society. Through attention to connection, they explore entangled existence and foster moral virtues of compassion, care, and love.

The project ‘Sibling’ has garnered inter/national recognition for its nuanced examination of intimacy and resilience. In 2021 the work was identified by Aesthetica Art Magazine (UK) as one of the top 125 works from around the world, and subsequently was published in their ‘Future Now’ anthology and featured in their ‘Future Now’ symposium. The work has been published in Art Collector Magazine alongside a feature on the artist’s practice in their ‘Undiscovered’ issue (2021). It has been presented on the Adelaide Festival Centre external screens (2020). Projected in Collingwood Yards (VIC) by the Centre for Projection Art for a private event (2021). And continues to be presented in galleries and public spaces across Australia.