(re)construction
{Various}

Opening September 1 at 6.30pm, September 1 -19
Yarra Sculpture Gallery

Anne Miron- Curator
As an occupational therapist working with people with acquired brain injury I have a clinical view of memory. As a primary function of cognition, memory determines what a person can and cannot do and physical and chemical disconnection's can affect it. Personally I experience memory as a narrative, a sense, an emotion, fragmented and transient, which can pierce the present as though it were an immediate event. As an artist I explore the vast spaces that lie between this science and the psyche - the consequence and its processes.

Yvette De Lacy
When I begin a new work I always seem to find myself digging up the past. Memories have always played a leading role in the conception of my work, with the idea of the future or the present barely entering the picture. My memories take on a three-dimensional form, which for me can express more truth and feeling than the written or spoken word can do.

Jane Wells
Memory formation is a continual process whereby experiences are taken out of space and time, encoded and transformed into living memories. Memories not only denote they connote. In (re) construction I am going to explore the role of sight in memory formation. I propose that a memory refers to the association between an image and the concept that is formed. This association involved the two processes of sensation and perception.


Jane Wells, Untitled

For me a tree root system evokes many of the aspects of the process of sensation, perception and memory formation. Using dendrochronology to look at the cross-section of the trunk we could establish age, a record of each year's growth and annual climatic variations. The root system is the hidden record, formed, growing, changing, adapting, interacting from the beginning to the end of the life of the tree.

Velislav Georgiev
I see (re)construction as an opportunity to revive my interest in psychogeometry - the passion, feeling, mood (affect) we experience in response to geometric shapes. My work alludes to the constructivists preference for non-organic even mathematical forms.

Magdalena Moreno
In this project I intend to explore the role of the artist - defining it as director rather than physical creator. I will place the role of maker onto the viewer/spectator as participator ( without giving them control over the act/piece) by recording their heartbeat through a monitor. I will resume authorship with my stamp of approval - the artist's signature.

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