December 2012, Monash University
Objects from a recent post-graduate exhibition at Monash University. An assortment of objects on a low plinth accompanied by a wall piece and a group of objects with a photograph from the recent West Space exhibition ‘Thus’. This collection of objects has been improvised around the idea of signifiers on a bed. The plinth is the same proportions as a single bed, while the word association with something imbedded or bedded down plays on the instability of these objects and their possible connotations. The objects are all fragments, bits of text that come from other texts; on this bed (as a framing device) they attempt to weave intertextual relations. So the bed is a temporary resting place for these objects that are on a range of different oscillations; some have come from previous exhibitions, others are alternative castings/variations or in new combinations/arrangements. They come together momentarily for this exhibition, only to continue moving (the mobility of signifiance). And what remains is the photograph that suggests something that was, yet a photograph that refers to itself. While copies of copies keep multiplying.
