Memory Horizon

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BACKGROUND: The project investigates the interstices of institutional and domestic space, and the physical and historical architecture situated within the modernist architecture of Heide Modern, Heide MOMA, through a methodology of site-specific spatial practices, domestic intervention and sculptural installation.The project is a framed by feminist philosopher Luce Irigaray (1993) ideas regarding re-inhabiting of space and place and identity, and the feminist concept of Chora as developed by Elizabeth Grosz that posits a rethinking of passage.Similar themes of reference: Lyndal Jones Avoca Project (2005–2016).The work considers the mediation of the viewer’s experience of present and past spatial experience and memory.
CONTRIBUTION: ‘Memory Horizon’ solo installation in a house/museum, documents prior acts of the artist’s making in photo works, installed interventions and sculptures.The passage between rooms reveals layered patterns of spatial use in time, as past, present and future. Comprises 11 situated photo works,15 situated sculptural interventions.'Memory Horizon' plays on the phrase ‘event horizon’ in reference to the boundaries of diverse pasts and possible futures. An embodied encounter of the viewer activates the work through their passage of movement through the house. The project proposes that through the process of inhabitation and intervention the artist re-presents the house as a cast object.
SIGNIFICANCE: First project in a solo commission series at Heide Modern. Catalogue interview Artistic Director of Heide MOMA Leslie Harding and artist, onsite exhibition documentation. Reviews: various including Sophie Knezic, Carolyn Eskdale’s Temporary Architectures, frieze magazine, issue 210, 27th April https://frieze.com/article/carolyn-eskdales-temporary-architectures Funding: Individual Arts Project grant Australian Council for the Arts, commission by Heide Museum Of Modern Art, The Lionel and Yvonne Spencer Trust