Vertigo/Boundlessness

Exhibition with Bryan Foong, Queensland College of the Arts, Griffith University Brisbane Project Space September 2023

‘The philosopher Catherine Malabou asks ‘How are we to transform ourselves now that (his)tory is over?’ Malabou uses the concept of plasticity in order to rethink how one might rebuild themselves philosophically and structurally, away from colonising conventions of form and language. Plasticity is also a term commonly used in the field of neuro-biology, referring to the ability of neuronal pathways to adapt, create and heal following injury and trauma. 

Vertigo-Boundlessness is a mixed-media installation of objects and oracles. Foong and Farrell combine their personal inventories of works to examine plasticity in queer terms, as a way to entertain contemporary ideas surrounding wellbeing, abjection and instability. The works within the exhibition use plastic as both a key and subsidiary material. Each work is envisioned as a polymer that combines in multifarious and unexpected ways. Although possessing a degree of stability, the boundaries and relations of the works are forever vertiginous, dissolving and transforming.