SACH CATTS, FRANCESCA HEINZ, ELOISE KIRK, MARK SHORTER & BEN TERAKES
’AWKWARD OBJECTS’
7 APRIL – 30 APRIL, 2016
Sach Catts, Water Cure: Beton Brut, 2015, Installation view. Prestressed concrete, galvanised steel, 130 x 241 x 70 cm. Photograph by Document Photography.
ID: There is a geometric abstract sculpture in front of the gallery. There is one concrete wall on a slant, with another L-shaped wall attached to the middle of it faced downward.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Awkward Objects offers five diverse practices presented through sculpture, multi-media installation and performance. Artists Sach Catts, Francesca Heinz, Eloise Kirk, Mark Shorter and Ben Terakes employ sculpture as both an object and a verb. Each artist produces a dialectical space to ignite a theatrical interaction between the artwork and the viewer. The experience of these artists work is visceral and pre-verbal; objects are made to be viewed and experienced with and by the body.
Awkward Objects, 2016, installation view. Photography by Document Photography.
ID: There is a collection of abstract objects across the gallery space. From the left, there is a wooden block hung on a piece of neon green wire, that has been wrapped around the wooden block multiple times on a white wall. Below it is an aqua blue pool shell, that looks like it has been made out of foam. Above this there is the string that the block was attached to that has been draped across to another wooden wall, with four pairs of colourful underwear on it. Behind the underwear is a neon pink large sculpture with “YAMAHA” written on the side in white. The wooden wall has two feet holding it up, and a strawberry milk bottle on the base of it. On the right, there is a large abstract sculpture, that looks like a creature with three legs, with a snail like body, coloured with yellow stains.
This group of artists believes that artworks hold performative potential either in their materiality or employment as performance props. Humor, antagonism and danger pose possible threats. The viewer is implicated, willingly or otherwise, in the play of relationships and actions the work sets out. Each artist’s work eschews evangelism and yet exercises ambivalence toward concrete outcomes. Amongst these practices performance (present or implied) offers an experimental and indeterminate zone wherein ideas are worked out as one goes.
Awkward Objects, 2016, installation view. Photography by Document Photography.
ID: There is a collection of abstract objects across the gallery space. From the left, there is a wooden block hung on a piece of neon green wire, that has been wrapped around the wooden block multiple times on a white wall. Below it is an aqua blue pool shell, that looks like it has been made out of foam. Above this there is the string that the block was attached to that has been draped across to another wooden wall, with four pairs of colourful underwear on it. Behind the underwear is a neon pink large sculpture with “YAMAHA” written on the side in white. The wooden wall has two feet holding it up, and a strawberry milk bottle on the base of it.
Awkward Objects, 2016, installation view. Photography by Document Photography.
ID: There is an array of abstract objects in the gallery, On the left, there is two black sculptures with sticks coming out of them, hung on a white wall. In the centre left, there is a large abstract sculpture, that looks like a creature with three legs, with a snail like body, coloured with yellow stains. Behind that is a cloud like wooden frame, with a blackboard like surface, hung on the wall. Beside that is a television screen with a scene that looks like a gallery or museum.
Francesca Heinz, Jacobs Gloves, 2007, Installation view. Lambskin, Dimensions Variable. Photography by Document Photography.
ID: There are two fabric sculptures hanging on a white wall, They both look like hands or gloves that have been sewn together, made out of different coloured lambskin.