Recollecting ruins, 2022
series of aggregate bodies sampled from various locations in South Australia, plywood, fixings, dimensions variable
Exhibited at Post Office Projects, Adelaide, SA.
The most beautiful world is like a heap of rubble tossed down in confusion - Heraclitus, Fragment 124
Recollecting ruins is a composition of stone gleaned by the local community, and has come to include building rubble, cast-off bricks, council pavers, ochre, garden tiles and remnant earthbound objects. Each cored fragment becomes part of this archive, forming a speculative cross-section of the accumulating geological trace of the Anthropocene. Here the process of core sampling is an attempt to sculpturally distil each item, in order to assemble an abstracted material record that is defined by its connection to people and place. Inspired by Robert Smithson’s text A Sediment of the Mind, and 1960s movements of Mona Ha and earthworks, Recollecting ruins quietly upholds these stones as traces of our past, present and future.
This project is supported by Arts South Australia. Post Office Projects Gallery is supported by Arts South Australia.
Images by Rosina Possingham.
