Remembering-how
Tori Ferguson
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August 2017
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August
2017
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August 2017
Gallery 2
Through a practice that encompasses video, drawing and sculpture, Tori Ferguson contemplates tensions between the permanent and the impermanent, monument and ephemera – examining the human urge to classify, to document, and to remember.In Remembering-how (2016), treading water – neither sinking nor swimming – is its own state of being. Suspended between activity and passivity, it is marked by a tension between the floating body and the effort required to keep it afloat. Influenced by the idea of habit memory, it brings into focus those actions that are remembered and expressed by the body reflexively.
Through a practice that encompasses video, drawing and sculpture, Tori Ferguson contemplates tensions between the permanent and the impermanent, monument and ephemera – examining the human urge to classify, to document, and to remember.In Remembering-how (2016), treading water – neither sinking nor swimming – is its own state of being. Suspended between activity and passivity, it is marked by a tension between the floating body and the effort required to keep it afloat. Influenced by the idea of habit memory, it brings into focus those actions that are remembered and expressed by the body reflexively.
Tori Ferguson
Tori Ferguson is an artist based in Birraranga/Melbourne Australia. Working with the mediums of video, drawing and sculpture, Tori Ferguson’s practice engages with the essential, and fallible, structures of human life, time and memory. She is drawn to the quotidian elements of our environment and often uses ordinary materials – investing them with a sense of the personal, or the compulsive. Her work contemplates tensions between the permanent and the impermanent, monument and ephemera, and examines the human urge to classify, to document, and to remember.