Assets

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Assets, 2023, Installation View. Outer Space, 2023.

Assets, 2023

Assets brings together works that playfully engage with the condition of contemporary visual culture, through the lens of art history, to create a dialectic between liquidity and capital, liquidity and data, and liquidity in the natural and material world. A television leaning against a rock is overtaken by live plants, glitter covered blobs of refined earth engulf a tangle of cables, videos of Pine O Cleen-filled balloons bursting on freshly mown grass, and a neat grid marking the colour spectrum is disrupted by the trace of a wet glass. These eclectic gestures speak, through material exploration, to the contemporary moment of 24/7 capitalism and the Anthropocene as both experience and concept.

Text:

Tara Heffernan, Assets, Catalogue Essay, Outer Space, 2023. pdf.

List of Works:

Liquid/Frozen Assets (2023) tablets, monitors, televisions, cabling, brightsigns, live plants, rocks, dirt, ceramics, silicone, slime, glitter, etc.

Liquid Assets (2023) 3 channel video.

Frozen Assets (2023) Watercolour pencils, water, paper

Exhibited at Outer Space, 17 June - 8 July, 2023.