Transobjects

Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Southbank, Melbourne, February 2013

Transobjects, 2013, Installation view

Beeswax of Apis mellifera, 2013

Material: beeswax and table of person/s unknown.

Transobjects, 2013, Installation view

Evocative objects (detail), 2012

Material: wooden chair found on a suburban nature strip. Aforementioned objects carbonised and ground, paper. Presence: Sherry Turkle’s Evocative Objects and particular contributing authors (persons unknown to me).

Carbon, atomic number 6 (detail), 2013

Material: carbonised objects and table of person/s unknown.

Carbonised woodblocks of Classical architecture (gift from the artist’s former partner), 2013

Presence: a former partner. Material for Fragment faces, 2013.

Objects from a table shared (detail), 2012

Material: accidentally carbonized cannellini beans forgotten on the stove. Aforementioned objects carbonised and ground, paper. Presence: artist’s former partner.

Bay laurel, Laurus nobilis (detail), 2013

Material: bay laurel leaves.

Fragment faces (detail), 2013

Material: woodblocks of Classical architecture (gift from the artist’s former partner). Aforementioned objects carbonised and ground, paper. Presence: artist’s former partner.

Wheat, Triticum aestivum (detail), 2013

Material: common Wheat and table of unknown person/s.

My sister’s table, my father’s garment, my mother’s mortar and pestle, 2013

Material: wooden table, granular salt, woolen handknitted garment, brass mortar and pestle. Presence: artist’s mother, father, sister, islands.

My sister’s table, my father’s garment, my mother’s mortar and pestle (detail), 2013

Material: wooden table, granular salt, woolen handknitted garment, brass mortar and pestle. Presence: artist’s mother, father, sister, islands.

My kitchen table with cups, bowls and plates once shared, 2013

Material: the artist’s crockery and burnt table. Presence: the artist’s former partner.

Grinding transobjects, 2013, Still from video

Breaking cups, bowls and plates once shared, 2013, Still from video

The works investigate the independent reality of “particularly determined” objects within human experience and as entities independent of human relations.

Philosophical positions involving notions of transubstantiation are explored and incorporate object-oriented philosophy’s retrieved and renovated concept of Aristotelian substance.

The artworks, based on the concepts of particularly determined things are found to undergo a change that is neither metaphoric nor metamorphic—but instead offer a transubstantial understanding of their objecthood.