Jacqueline Spedding, Loess, 2011. Photography by Michael Myers
Jacqueline Spedding, Loess, 2011. Photography by Michael Myers
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Jacqueline Spedding, Loess, 2011. Photography by Michael Myers
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LOESS, SYDNEY COLLEGE OF THE ARTS, 2011
Jacqueline Spedding, Loess, 2011. Installation. Steel, paper, organic material, muslin, resin, ceramic, wood, charcoal, digital projection.
Sydney College of the Arts, 7 – 14 Dec, 2011
This installation explores the shadowy space of lost things; of the forgotten, the over-looked, the erased and the misplaced. Drawing its impulse from archives, it looks into the space inbetween and outside the control and order of carefully preserved nature. The bodies in this 'un-archive' are over-sized, fragmented, displaced. The repetition of forms are an expression of the excess that is always present but unaccounted for in scientific systems.
The work is titled 'Loess', after a geological process of accumulation, of silt blown by the wind that settles to form sediment. The word is redolent of memory, as a process of gathering and forming experience, and also of making, as a process of layering materials to make each piece. Contained within loess is also loss, which is at the heart of all of our experience.
Sydney College of the Arts, 7 – 14 Dec, 2011
This installation explores the shadowy space of lost things; of the forgotten, the over-looked, the erased and the misplaced. Drawing its impulse from archives, it looks into the space inbetween and outside the control and order of carefully preserved nature. The bodies in this 'un-archive' are over-sized, fragmented, displaced. The repetition of forms are an expression of the excess that is always present but unaccounted for in scientific systems.
The work is titled 'Loess', after a geological process of accumulation, of silt blown by the wind that settles to form sediment. The word is redolent of memory, as a process of gathering and forming experience, and also of making, as a process of layering materials to make each piece. Contained within loess is also loss, which is at the heart of all of our experience.