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Kath Fries, Handheld – melting, 2016, ice and video projection,
dimensions approximately 60x50x30cm |
Handheld – melting is my current video and ice installation, which involves a daily assemblage of different melting ice pieces. This repetitive embodied process engages with touch, materiality, temperature and transience. As I handle and place the ice pieces, I feel them melting against my skin and the immediacy of this engagement is also apparent to the viewer as the shape, form and reflections of the ice changes as it melts. The video of dripping icicles was filmed exactly a year ago, in Finland's frozen landscape and snowy climate, which starkly contrasts the hot humid weather of February in Sydney.
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| Kath Fries, Handheld – melting, 2016, ice and video projection, detail view |
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| Kath Fries, Handheld – melting, 2016, ice and video projection |
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| Kath Fries, Handheld – melting, 2016, ice and video projection, detail view |
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| Kath Fries, Handheld – melting, 2016, ice and video projection |
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| Kath Fries, Handheld – melting, 2016, ice and video projection, detail view |
Handheld – melting is currently exhibited in Her Moving Presence at AirSpace Projects, 10 Junction St Marrickville NSW, until 20 February.
For more images of this work please see www.instagram.com/explore/tags/handheldmelting/
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