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FACTORY 49 49 Shepherd St Marrickville Sydney 2015
BUNKERED
BRANCH GALLERY
Forest Lodge
GLEBE SYDNEY
6 - 27 SEPTEMBER
2014
CURATOR: Sarah Nolan
BUNKERED :
Installations by fourteen artists and architects exhibited throughout a Forest Lodge terrace. Curated by Sarah Nolan, director of Branch Gallery, Bunkered explored future living possibilities, issues and interpretations of climate change. The artists who exhibited at Bunkered were: Aaron Anderson, Lisa Andrew, Sarah Breen Lovett, Kuba Dorabialski, Kath Fries Yvette Hamilton, Anna Horne, Rachael McCallum, Sarah Nolan, Office Feuerman, Katy B Plummer, Madeleine Preston, Marlene Sarroff, and Lotte Schwerdtfeger. Video stills from video by Michael Filocamo commissioned by Sarah Nolan.
For the artists in BUNKERED the whole house is again “the canvas” but true to today’s zeitgeist the mood is uncertain, precarious, unpredictable, problematic. We are no longer so sure…of anything. The house is not only the real-life home of Sarah and her partner Gavin, it is also the site of Branch 3D, the window gallery that Sarah curates from the front room. This project expands the window gallery to include the whole house, which has now become an immersive experience where visitors can roam freely throughout.
“BEFORE I CLIMB THE NARROW WOODEN STAIRS TO THE NEXT LEVEL I ADMIRE MARLENE SARROFF’S TEMPERATURE RISING. THIS DELIGHTFUL AND CLEVER PIECE OF ABSTRACTION ACTS AS A MATERIAL, BODILY THERMOMETER. THE LOWER TREADS ARE PAINTED BRIGHT GREEN, AND AS YOU STEP UPSTAIRS THE COLOUR CHANGES TO A BLISTERING RED. AS THE SAYING GOES, “HEAT RISES.” IN THIS WORK YOU SEE AND TREAD THE CHANGE IN TEMPERATURE AS YOUR BODY MOVES UP THE STEPS.” VIA ARI REVIEW
MARLENE SARROFF / ARTIST STATEMENT :Temperature Rising
Climate change is the single biggest environmental and humanitarian crisis of our time. The Earth’s atmosphere is overloaded with heat-trapping carbon dioxide, which threatens large-scale disruptions in climate with disastrous consequences. We must act now to spur the adoption of cleaner energy sources at home and abroad.
In Bunkered, the house stairs and steps are used as a climate thermometer. As the visitors climb the stairs they can sense the temperature becoming warmer by the variations of the colour red on each step riser. As one transcends further into the attic, the red intensifies indicating heat rising as a metaphor for the planet warming. As the temperatures rise our buildings require careful planning to ensure less energy is used to heat and cool them.
On descending the stairs the visitor will step on green treads, a gradual gradient becomes dense in colour as you descend the stairs to the ground floor, indicating the environment is in good shape and provides a healthy environment. Once back on the ground foor the visitors are provided with an opportunityto participate in a questionnaire testing their knowledge on environmental issues.
DRIFT.
FLANERIE IN CONTEMPORARY ART
497 Parramatta Road Leichhardt. Sydney 28 FEBRUARY – 23 MAY 2013
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