Molly Rose Stephenson

Conscious Systems

9

January 2020

9

Jan

2020

31

Jan 2020

Gallery 1

Conscious Systems

Molly Rose Stephenson

9

January 2020

9

January

2020

31

January 2020

Gallery 1

Conscious Systems has been created to reflect upon occultism in the twenty-first century, as well as to draw upon Timothy Morton’s ideology of ‘the new natural’- where humans and nonhumans can co-exist in harmony through transformation and rebirth. My aim was to create a habitat for these mutations and objects to exist within. These sculptures are a combination of whimsical, murky moulds of soap, tea candles, toxic kitsch materials and ceramics. I manipulate and assemble these anarch forms to allude to metamorphosis, seduction, violence and ruin. Burning, melting, oozing, thawing and leaking are some of the tactile procedures I engage within as re ections of mankind’s violence and brutality towards nature. My installations have tended to evoke conversations about faerie junkyards and the dichotomy of the organic and synthetic. Conversely, this has also lead me to want to investigate the obscurity of the occultist and supernatural in further depth, as opposed to merely the fantasy of folklore and growths.

Exhibition documented by Aaron Rees.

Conscious Systems has been created to reflect upon occultism in the twenty-first century, as well as to draw upon Timothy Morton’s ideology of ‘the new natural’- where humans and nonhumans can co-exist in harmony through transformation and rebirth. My aim was to create a habitat for these mutations and objects to exist within. These sculptures are a combination of whimsical, murky moulds of soap, tea candles, toxic kitsch materials and ceramics. I manipulate and assemble these anarch forms to allude to metamorphosis, seduction, violence and ruin. Burning, melting, oozing, thawing and leaking are some of the tactile procedures I engage within as re ections of mankind’s violence and brutality towards nature. My installations have tended to evoke conversations about faerie junkyards and the dichotomy of the organic and synthetic. Conversely, this has also lead me to want to investigate the obscurity of the occultist and supernatural in further depth, as opposed to merely the fantasy of folklore and growths.

Molly Rose Stephenson

Molly is a contemporary, early-career research-based artist based in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. Metaphysically motivated, Molly’s artistic practice is an intuitive one that exists in a constant state of flux, instability and disorientation. She explores displacements of human labour, performance and projection upon the non-human, non-being world primarily through sculpture, bricoloage and installation. She is particularly interested in how performative displacements can diffuse the existence between the certainty and permanence of an assumed reality and fantasy.