Steady Illiterate Movement
Sundari Carmody
24
August 2017
24
August
2017
8
September 2017
7UP
Sundari Carmody’s Steady Illiterate Movement presents a series of sculptures that have developed through a three-way conversation between theoretical cosmology, sculpture, and botany. The objects in this project orbit around the Papaver Somniferum, ‘sleep bringing poppy’, and the figure of Vera Rubin, an astronomer who spent many nights cataloguing the position and movement of stars around the Andromeda galaxy. Rubin is credited with discovering evidence for the existence of dark matter. The works are an attempt to give form to things that are invisible or which lie just beyond the limits of our perception. Steady Illiterate Movement explores altered states of consciousness, sleep and astronomy, the threshold between the seen and unseen – the known, unknown and unknowable.
Sundari Carmody’s Steady Illiterate Movement presents a series of sculptures that have developed through a three-way conversation between theoretical cosmology, sculpture, and botany. The objects in this project orbit around the Papaver Somniferum, ‘sleep bringing poppy’, and the figure of Vera Rubin, an astronomer who spent many nights cataloguing the position and movement of stars around the Andromeda galaxy. Rubin is credited with discovering evidence for the existence of dark matter. The works are an attempt to give form to things that are invisible or which lie just beyond the limits of our perception. Steady Illiterate Movement explores altered states of consciousness, sleep and astronomy, the threshold between the seen and unseen – the known, unknown and unknowable.
Sundari Carmody
Sundari Carmody is an Australian artist who grew up in Bali, Indonesia. Her multimedia works explore the relationships between consciousness and the cosmos. Her practice concerns itself with the question of how to engage with universal systems and aspects of being, which linger in the category of the unknown, in ‘the dark’. Using varied and carefully selected materials such as nocturnal scents, sleep-bringing poppies, fabric, brass, light and mist, she attempts to find useful frameworks to give form to things that are invisible or which lie just beyond the limits of our perception. Her work examines how we process (through the instruments of science, culture, physiology and psychology) aspects of 'the dark' and ask - what are the implications of these unknowns for our concept of knowledge itself?Sundari graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) from the South Australian School of Art, University of South Australia. Sundari’s work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions across Australia, including Firstdraft, Sydney; ‘Slow Moving Waters’ 2021 TarraWarra Biennial, Healesville; ACE Gallery, Adelaide; Seventh Gallery, Melbourne; Bus Projects, Melbourne; Outer Space, Brisbane; and FELTspace, Adelaide. Her work is held in private collections and Artbank.