EQUIlibrium (DECONSTRUCTED)

FACTORY 49 SHOWROOM

March 2014

49 Shepherd Street Marrickville SYDNEY

Equilibrium is defined as a state of balance or a stable situation where opposing forces cancel each other out and where no changes are occurring and influences are balanced. Marlene Sarroff allows abstract ideas to merge equally with the use of everyday materials and found objects. She is guided by the persuasiveness of the material and objects. By freeing the “things” by dissociation, estranging them, removing them from their context, with the aim simply putting things together as far as possible in an unaltered state.Always allowing the juxtaposed materials to speak for themselves within a spatial environment. The key in Sarroff’s work shows she provides these objects with the potential to take on new meaning,giving them licence to express unknown aspects of their virtual selves. In EQUALIBRIUM (Deconconstructed), found rubber pieces are carefully assembled like a puzzle, placed and fixed to a wooden surface, without altering the pieces. The works are both rectangular and square, grouped irregularly  on the gallery wall  interspersed  with other works from a deconstructed laser cut magazine rack also on a wooden surface. A felt carpet balances evenly from a buckled strap, and a heavy duty folding cardboard unfolds  down to the floor. The floor is dominated by a large flat oval wooden shape (table top) and situated in the gallery corner , circular discs balance precariously in cluster. The exhibition takes on the appearance of an installation collage, where various unrelated objects, are united in a balanced yet unpredictable way.