[title not known] 1968 - 1969

Curator: There's a curious stillness in this untitled work by Robyn Denny, isn't there? A sort of quiet geometry. Editor: It strikes me as incredibly imposing. There's a weight to those blocks of color, a kind of architectural assertion of space. I wonder how that reflects the postwar urban landscape Denny experienced. Curator: Perhaps it's the color palette, that mauve against the brown, that gives it such gravity. The composition feels like a puzzle, or a map, but to what? Editor: Maybe the map of power dynamics? Denny was working in a period where ideas about abstraction were intertwined with modernist urban planning, often displacing marginalized communities. Curator: It's like a meditation on form and void, a dialogue between the solid and the ethereal. I'm still struck by the quietness of it, though. Editor: A quiet born of oppression, perhaps. A language of color and shape that hints at unspoken realities. Curator: It certainly invites us to look beyond the surface. Editor: Precisely, and to listen for what it doesn’t say.