Approaching midnight
A collaborative exhibition with Steph Fuller
Curated by Steph Cibich
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We are continually affected by natural forces, loitering and hovering, on a cusp of becoming with no possible retreat.
In the face of the climatic and social upheavals of our planet we seem to be trapped in a waiting space with a future estranged and uncertain. Our tendency is to turn away and cling to a familiar way of seeing the world, a way that makes us feel safe and in control.
A narrow pause between a breath and becoming vapour. A droplet caught in a freeze frame of a single indivisible whole.
Universal transience is an installation that explores our impermanence and the threshold space through which we experience our world.
Resin is a synthetic material affected by time, air, humidity and gravity. This porous characteristic of resin acts as a skin, a sponge which absorbs all phenomena of the moment
The work considers this sensory threshold, between our skin and all matter that surrounds us. The motion captured within the resin acts as a filter that allows us see to space and each other as continually moving. It is as a veil inviting us to surrender to a space of new becoming, the unknown and the unfamiliar.
Universal Transience shown at Arthur Arthaus, 2021
Centre for Creative Health Art Prize 2021,
Light Squre Gallery
