Shifting Forces (2022), Installation View, CAVES, Images by Guy Grabowsky.
Shifting Forces is a collaborative installation by Julien Comer-Kleine, Nina Rose Prendergast, Gabrielle Skye Nehrybecki and Sean McDowell, encompassing hybrid forms of sculpture, painting, drawing, video and sound. Driven by a mutual interest in natural and supernatural worlds, the artists have used a combination of manmade and organically occurring materials to mimic a range of systems existing within the environment. The exhibition investigates the potentiality for complex relations to unfold between elements, recognising their ability to move, shift and transform in ongoing states of fluxes. Shifting Forces aims to uncover the natural ecologies inherent to the materials and forms, including their physical limitations and the scientific properties that constitute them. The works lend themself to readings that consider the presence of non-human organisms, entities and paranormal forces, navigating spiritual knowledge structures and stories of the occult. Within this dialogue, the artists also contemplate cycles of life and death, existentialism, psychology, our relationship to materials and how such experiences affect sensation.
This exhibition is a part of CAVES Guest Curator Program 2021 and made possible with support from Creative Victoria.
Exhibition Dates: 4 - 26 March, 2022
Opening Event: 4 March, 6-8pm
Loss (2022), Patinated copper, copper paint, Victorian ash, 94cm x 64cm.
Decomposition (2022), Patinated copper, copper paint, Victorian ash, 94cm x 64cm. Private Collection, Melbourne.
Untitled ( Egg Carton I ), 2020, Patinated bronze, 29.5cm x 26cm x 7cm.
Untitled ( Egg Carton II ), 2020, Patinated bronze, 28.5cm x 23.5cm x 11cm.
Corrosion (2022), Patinated copper, copper paint, Victorian ash, 94cm x 64cm. Private Collection, Melbourne.