Christopher L G Hill : 

Turtle(亀)

24 Jun - 22 Jul, 2023

Goya Curtain presents Turtle (亀), an installation by Christopher L G Hill comprising found objects, printed media, and both 3D and sound collages.

The surface of a floor, a painting, the gemstoned shell turtle in Joris-Karl Huysmans' À rebours (Against Nature/Against the Grain).

The curved surface of the world is like a turtle shell, protecting its inside but also a system of nerves, and plates like fingernails.

Despite the raised curve of a shell being able to be read as flat covering, like a laminex, the turtle's shell is a complex and structurally a curve made up of vertebrae, pelvis, ribcage, and the carapace made up of scutes.

Horizontally the surface of the tatami mats has moments of interruption.

Turtles blend in with rocks sunning themselves.

The 2 dimensions of a thought come alive in 3D (actual and conceptual) and blend back into the 2D of the mind.

Revolutions come and go.

Worlds become other worlds, scrunched up, and flattened.

Turtles wander slowly along the road, their comrades painted over with white lines.

pacifist turtle

caravan turtle

horizontal turtle

Plato's cave/shell turtle

Joris-Karl Huysmans' gem encrusted turtle

crawling on the floor turtle

upside down made upright by their friend’s turtle

introspective turtle

kappa turtle.

protected from the jaguar slow and solid turtle

stacked turtle

all the way down turtle

a turtle earth

Yorta Yorta turtle

an escaped turtle

a discus turtle

wax turtle

dove turtle

teenage mutant ninja turtle

sunning turtle

fantasy a turtle

fortunate a turtle

money turtle

patient turtle

pond turtle

shellshock turtle

Flintstones turntable turtle

long-life turtle

tortoise terrapin turtle

reiki turtle

Minogame turtle

Yertle the turtle

instrument turtle

total turtle

purple turtle

rabbit and turtle

soup turtle

island turtle

Gamera turtle

Squirtle turtle

Franklin the turtle *90's cartoon

Tortimer turtle

Genbu black turtle

Bixi Turtle

Gchi-Mikinaak the great turtle

Discworld turtle

Mbeku turtle

Churchy LaFemme turtle

Peekaboo and Speedy turtle

mock turtle


About the artist

Christopher L G Hill (b. 1980, Melbourne, Australia).