c3 Artspace, Abbottsford Convent, August 2018
In Light Bodies, the artist explores the relationship between the self and the material world as one in flux, characterised by a constant stream of incremental adjustments both conscious and innate. In this intimate and unreliable space desire and vulnerability coalesce as the individual attempts to locate themselves within a constantly shifting environment. Light Bodies is a site specific sculptural installation which investigates this space: the unfixed potential of materiality, the agency of matter and the tenuous relationship between the personal body and the material world.
In this work, materials associated with the intimate body such as salon waxes, soap and nail varnishing pigments are employed alongside more traditional sculptural materials to produce a tableau of objects in dialogue with each other. Over the course of the day, the natural light filtering through the space will affect the way the works are illuminated, subtly altering their colours, surfaces and forms and resulting in an incremental visual modification of the works. Light and heat will affect the colour and the scent of the objects. The intimate scale of the objects and the precarious quality of the materials will seek to provide an evocative viewer encounter in an indeterminate space redolent of incoherent memories, confused desires and private moments.
Photography by Aaron Christopher Rees