“ Wait, are you looking outside?”…with Sarah Catania

“ Wait, are you looking outside?”
“ Yeah, of course !”
“But isn’t there just a brick wall outside your window ?”

A Collaborative art installation with the wonderful artist Sarah Catania, this work was exhibited at Black Cat Gallery in Melbourne May 2022.

Artwork statement

The relationship between the inhabitant and the home is ever changing and due to the pandemic, we have all spent extended periods of time at home.  This project investigates the mental and emotional strain the numerous lockdowns have had on us as a society.  Reflecting on personal experiences, this work aims to capture the feeling of being stuck both physically and mentally.  We are constantly looking out of the window for an open escape only to find more windows as our normal outside world is narrowed down and the architecture density of the city prevents us from having a proper visual escape. 

Our approach to these darker themes are expressed playfully through the use of bright colours, aiming to reveal these intensified emotions and to bring some positivity and changes to the way we view these spaces.

Background journal

This was my first ever national exhibition, an exhibition not in my own city, I got my friend Clarisse who was already flying to Melbourne to take my part of the work with her and bring it to Sarah for her to install and bring together. Unfortunately I didn’t have the chance to see this show as I was installing another one in Sydney at the same time. This collaborative work was smaller scale tryout for larger immersive installation.