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Nothingness Haunts Being
Nothingness Haunts Being
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2024-06-17End date
2024-09-27Research statement
Background Meyrick continues to explore E. Burke’s concept of the ‘terror sublime’—where the sublime evokes a sense of terror—to explore our relationship with screens during the Covid era and beyond. This creative inquiry into ‘sublime isolation’ reflects on human freedom and the complexities of reality. The work, presented at Yarra St Gallery, features thousands of hand-rendered lines resembling a wide-angle drone shot, symbolizing isolation, place, and the spaces in between. Drawing on Sartre, it continues an exploration of liminal, threshold spaces and the idea of ‘being-in-itself’. Contribution In Meyrick’s hand drawn work, an 80 x 50 x50cm circular lightbox extends the drawing from the hand to the audience in a 3D form. This expands on the work from in+a+blink+of+an+eye to focus on a macro view of the place and space we inhabit. Simple to visually get lost in by presenting a maze of streets, buildings and city actions, the work draws the viewer into the metaphysical, metaphorical and material beauty and terror of isolation. The work completed over 18months draws in the viewer replicating experiences of our sublime isolation, thriving without connections, bound by practice; a visual labyrinth of pathways each one circling back upon itself. Significance Exploring our relationship to the screen in relation to lived experience, and how the material and abstract aspects of our lives can open onto both sublime and terrifying experiences, is of primary importance at this time where more of our lives are taking shape in virtual spaces. This work was commissioned by the Yarra St Gallery and produced for the inaugural exhibition at this City Council Gallery Space in Central Geelong.Extent
3D lightbox, perspex, vinyl wrap. 1 x hand rendered drawingEvent
Yarra Street Gallery, Yarra Street, Geelong, AustraliaPublisher
City of Greater GeelongPlace of publication
Yarra Street Gallery, GeelongUsage metrics
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