glasshouse: somewhere between underground cables and overhead flights
‘There was an overall feel of play and investigation with this show – what is revealed when we place objects into dialogue with each other? This sort of investigative art that takes disparate elements and creates work from the interplay is possibly not seen enough...’ - Andrew Harper 2024
https://makeanddo.art/make-and-do-may-2024/
Glasshouse- somewhere between underground cables and overhead flights continues Nani and Marguerite’s collaborative project shaped by distance and movement across space and place. Focusing their attention on the historical structures of frames and glass, looking to the intertwined legacies of vitrines and green houses and their presence within globalised aesthetics and colonial design legacies. Disparate objects are unpicked and reformed to expose a connective tissue.
The notion of collaboration is one familiar to glass. On Tiktok the other day, I saw an ageold Terrarium, filled with critters to ensure the longevity of such a thing. An entire universe, behind glass, the only space these critters would know. Through human intervention, we have synthetically created this miniature universe. Humans collaborating with glass (amongst other things, sometimes even the dip of a creek) to create a brand new universe. - Zara Sully, exhibition publication, 2024.
‘Glasshouse was thoughtful, deployed an excellent aesthetic and had a solid DIY feel. The presence of extra essays around the idea of glasshouses from other artists and the use of a couple of nicely chosen found items gave the exhibition an expansiveness, as if the artists were inviting the community not just to observe the ideas here, but potentially go a bit further in their own investigations and questionings.’ - Andrew Harper 2024
https://makeanddo.art/make-and-do-may-2024/
I browse through images and videos of the 2022 internet trend of glass skin, it appears amongst other complex skincare routines available to view on the internet. Glass skin means “skin that looks crystal-clear, poreless, translucent, and luminous - like a piece of glass.” A beauty standard to add to the growing list of how to better oneself. There are accompanying discussions below each post, advice on how to achieve such skin, where you can travel to in Korea to receive specialised facials, and how it is more affordable to fly to Korea and back than to receive these treatments in the US or Australia. The transplantation of this beautification practice from one place to another happening somewhere between underground cables and overhead flights. Outsourcing beauty globally contributes to a system that funds, studies, propagates, and proliferates businesses that operate on colonised, industrialised, capitalised, and then digitised lands. - Nani Graddon, exhibition publication, 2024
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