Heavy Majestic, installation view. L-R: Ramona Lindsay, Jocelyn Tribe, Jake Treacy, Pip Stafford, Catherine Evans, Seb Brown, Katie Jayne Britchford, Ria Green & Aliçia Bryson-Haynes, Vittoria di Stefano. Photography: Jake Treacy 2016.
Installation details of 'Process at Leisure' by Danica Chappell, chromogenic transparency, 2016
HEAVY MAJESTIC
Katie Jayne Britchford, Seb Brown, Danica Chappell, Catherine Evans, Ria Green & Aliça Bryson-Haynes, Alicia King, Pip Stafford,
Vittoria di Stefano, Jake Treacy, Jocelyn Tribe
Curated by Jake Treacy
May 4 – June 4, 2016
Opening night: Thursday May 5, 6-8pm
Heavy Majestic locates the moment when contemporary art becomes alchemic. 11 artists experiment with the transmutation of materiality, measuring esoteric and exoteric properties and virtues. 19 mailboxes become hermetically sealed laboratories: Shit turns into gold; flesh levitates; marble tongues yearn to intertwine; photographs become phantoms; and an elevator becomes a metaphysic machine. Simultaneously, the architecture of Mailbox Art Space is filled with abstracted, coloured light, encouraging visitors to traverse physical and mystical levels. The exhibition meditates upon shifting forms and the magic object; nothing is fixed, everything is enduring. This is the mysterious language of Heavy Majestic.
Installation details of 'Sleep and His Half-Brother Death' by Jake Treacy, inkjet print, mirror and blu-tac, 2016
Installation detail of 'Surfaces of Spanda' by Jocelyn Tribe, boxboard and marble laminate,2016