Companions
18 July - 30 August
PARI: Cnr Hunter St and O'Connell St, Parramatta, NSW 2150Artists: Reanne Chidiac, Kath Fries, Chevron Hassett, Miska Mandic, Audrey Newton and Dianne Turner
Curators: Rebecca Gallo, Talitha Hanna and Akil Ahamat
In Companions, materials are active partners in each practice, and the subsequent works are collaborations: the result of a push and pull between human and non-human companions.
I'll be exhibiting some of my Respire wall sculptures, with air-dried oyster mushrooms and beeswax in glass terrariums.
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| Kath Fries, Respire, 2018-2019, air-dried oyster mushrooms and beeswax in glass terrariums |
Respire is an attentive meditation on breathing that reaches beyond our skin's porous boundaries. Fungi - just like humans - breathe in oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide, the opposite to plants. Breathing is unavoidably an interconnected ongoing activity: we are always breathing the same air as our surroundings.
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