Artist

Michael Schlitz

Date: 17-Mar-2017 – 16-Apr-2017

Location: Contemporary Art Tasmania

light memory, dark ground is an evocation. An amalgam of dreams and natural systems, empirical knowledge sets and emergent lore, the work poses a visual metalanguage where nature is found to be magical.

The installation will comprise wood carving and ultra-violet light with a large, organic structure that references natural systems such as clouds, coral, mycelium and trees. An unnatural glow renders bifurcated twigs, sticks, and branches, networked into a reimagined organic form, as luminescent root systems or a lone night cloud. This dislocation of our known world is offered back as a way of considering how trees may remember and dream as they grow, change and evolve.

Click here to download an essay written by Eliza Burke.

Presented as part of Ten Days on the Island.