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Curtains2023
@ Blindsides ARI, Melbourne/Naarm
An artwork made for ‘Building the Palace,’ a group show curated by Mara Scherdtfeger. This work is a continuation of thoughts on the impermanence and ghostliness of spaces made in the self-organised spirit.
The curtain represents both a desire and an inability to transform the solidity of space in a renter-culture city. Its soft dimensions hold fast to marks and stains left behind, absorbing smells and sounds, wrinkles making archive of the movement of bodies and air. The channels sewn into the muslin form a map of the intangible actions of mori. Pull the ropes, bring the curtain down, wear it around you where you next haunt. The hooks are left behind.
Photography by Zoe Baumgartner.