Referring to the process of using digital production technologies to extract objects and materials that relate to architectural form, historical spaces and cultural memory – ‘REVERSE ARCHAEOLOGIES’ proposes an exhibition of new works by artists and an architect, investigating the history and teleology of casting forms, architectural fragmentation, and site-specific sculptures.
The project signals a natural extension of the long standing tradition of mutual spatial and material influence between art and architecture, set against the backdrop of Tin Sheds own historic legacy as a space of interdisciplinary activities.
Through speculative and creative development, the works in this exhibition aim to provide practical insights into the complex relationships between old and new architectural technologies and sculptural processes. The object ontologies informing the artist's works manifest as both high and low tech artefacts and forms, developing in response to the architectural features of the Tin Sheds Gallery, the University and other related urban and regional context of Sydney & beyond.
“The act of casting site specific material, historic plaques, monuments, and architectural surfaces in clay, plaster, silicon, glass, metal, and / or bronze carries significant social and cultural meaning. By replicating these structures in tangible materials, we preserve their memory and history for future generations. Here in reverse, a narrative is concealed,
transferred into a coded surface or becomes a sculptural object. The process of casting itself represents a form of homage and reverence to the original structure or object, paying tribute to its cultural and historical memory”.
