EXPERIMENTA
VANISHING POINT
COLLABORATION WITH LESLIE EASTMAN
BLACK BOX GALLERY
THE ARTS CENTRE
MELBOURNE
Formless is the second collaboration by Natasha Johns-Messenger
and Leslie Eastman working under the rubric of XYZ. This outdoor installation
work combines both artists’ interest in works which respond to
the existing site, in this case the Melbourne Hamer Hall designed by
Sir Roy Grounds, and the Experimenta Vanishing Point exhibition itself
with its emphasis on illusion. The work is a play on the theatrical
as well as an elaboration of both artists concerns about perception,
optics and space. Material and immaterial, solid and formless, transparent
and opaque, reflective and mute, the work enfolds the viewer in the
elusive circular nature of perception and the mutability of forms.
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