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Inbetween, 2010

Projection instillation, feathers, lace, audio

Instillation view, basement, Alliance Française de Melbourne

Recipient of the Alliance Française Prize for 

Only in liminal space can transformation occur. This instillation is a continuation of ideas into a relationship between humans, animals and the land from earlier works, From the Earth We Have Come and to the Earth We Shall Return, 2010 and Agitated Confines, 2010. The recurring motif of contamination is a reaction the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in early 2010.

 

The broken remnants of a past event are the focus, as shadows seep over the costume and darken the space, a ghostly presence is found that alludes to a spiritual lingering. The two parts have juxtaposing significance; the nest acts as a place of birth, a signifier of renewal, and the floating feathers become a sign of ascension and death. Yet both of these are tainted from the past and the present. The emptiness of the space between the forms allows for the potential for change, becoming a space of transformation between human and animal, but also between life and death. 

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