caring for non-human matter

Elemental Systems explores the agency and vulnerability of the nonhuman. Working sensitively with natural elements from significant sites in Tasmania, the artist forms symbiotic relationships with her work through gestures of care and protection. Housed beneath Battery Point in the subterranean corridors of the historical site Princes Park Magazine, Elemental Systems presents ‘assembled landscapes’ of stone, ice and living matter. These fragments or micro-ecologies of Tasmania are a response to the artist’s connection to place.

Presented by Constance ARI

Elemental Systems presented by Constance ARI at Princes Park Magazine, Battery Point, Hobart, March 2020

 

 

Ice/Moss, moss covered cement slab (found in Franklin, TAS), ice, 2019, dimensions variable

 

Sediment System, sandstone, tubing, Derwent River water, tray, palette, bucket, brick, 2019, dimensions variable

 

Sediment System (detail), 2019

 

Forging Home, dolerite, symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast, living probiotic fluid, tubing, glass bowl, tray, 2019, dimensions variable

 

Forging Home, dolerite, symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast, living probiotic fluid, tubing, glass bowl, tray, 2019, dimensions variable

 

Ice/Moss (video), installed in Princes Park Magazine as part of Elemental Systems presented by Constance ARI

Ice/Moss (video), 2019

 

Untitled, a piece of MONA sandstone inserted in existing hole in wall, Princes Park Magazine, Battery Point Hobart, 2020

 

Images courtesy of Tim Coad 

Exhibition catalogue