Perceivable and Perceptible
by Béatrice Carlson and Janet Mazenier
Béatrice Carlson and Janet Mazenier are two artists living in Te Hau Kapua Devonport, New Zealand.
They both have a deep “Old World” heritage with Béatrice French roots and Janet Irish ancestry.
Both are represented overseas with Béatrice exhibitions in Italy, Greece, Portugal, Romania and Janet residencies in Ireland, Iceland.
Their Ethos and Practice meet nonetheless here, in Aotearoa, in the folds of surface and depth, where matter becomes more than itself: Carlson’s objects for the Wall and the Body carry the pulse of migration and identity, the sense of being between cultures and languages. Mazenier’s wax and oil strata breathe with landscape and atmosphere, holding time in translucent veils and excavated textures.
Both move beyond representation into evocation: Carlson’s layers whisper of memory and transformation while Mazenier’s fields shimmer with the spirit of place. Both learn from each other, their practice transforming to a symbiotic art form.
Each gathers fragments—of past, of land, of breath—and translates them into suspended moments, neither fixed nor fleeting.What connects them is a shared trust in material to carry memory, in surface to become threshold.Their work meet at the junction of shared techniques, materials and minds.
They share their common threads in an intimate exhibition result of a year of discussion, months of collaboration, weeks of immersion and exploration during their residency together in Rawene Church.
Perceivable and Perceptable, Béatrice Carlson and Janet Mazenier
@ Satellite2 Gallery
12-29 November 2026
Immersion in between the object and its interpretation,
the palpable and the conceptual