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