We know ourselves as part and as crowd, (after Edouard Glissant, Poetics of relation)

dug up ceramic plumbing, preloved discarded toys, reclaimed suitcase, reclaimed memories, wood, metal, cement, hessian, cardboard, synthetic wig, plastic jug, tape, coke bottle, water, juicy fruit chewing gum, wool, rope, occy straps, plastic zip ties, star picket, cement pavers, synthetic polymer paint, 185 x 80 x 160cm.

Les Sculptures Refusees, Q Station, Manly.

21 Oct - 12 Nov 2023

We know ourselves as part and as crowd plays with assemblage as poetics of relation. A sequence of objects forms a language of repetition, intuition, and improvisation to form an ocular open-ended riddle. Reclaimed objects are dug up, sourced, and used to confront our contemporary life and culture while referencing social and art-historical precedents.

The composition intersects both sculpture and painting with an emphasis on materiality and process traversing complexity and ridiculousness. All the elements make one large canvas. The colour removes the boundaries of the objects so there is no subject/object relationship; the parts are unified for the whole.

 The work is built on Deleuze and Guattari’s notion that assemblage is relational and co-functioning. It is an ontological constitution where conative bodies merge then disassemble and reassemble with new or other elements and new associations are forged or mutated. The work is an assemblage of material objects, an assemblage of thought, and of embedded past and present individual and collective socio-culture experiences.

Documentation Philippa Hagon