‘Sea, Salt and Silk’
Exhibition by Violeta Čapovska
Video + Installation + Live sound
9 April
7 – 9 pm
The Oratory, Abbotsford Convent
‘Sea, Salt and Silk’ is an exhibition by Violeta Čapovska, comprising video, installation, and live sound. Čapovska presents her video project from her recent Art Residency NES, in Skagaströnd, Iceland, combining live sound and participatory installation with works on paper and salt.
The video work ‘Measurements (1, 2 and 3), 2023 and ‘Sea, Salt and Silk’, 2023 is based on site-specific performances at the shore of the Arctic Ocean. The artist uses found white and black salt embroidered in silk brought from Australia, found Perspex pieces and Icelandic blue wool, conjecturing the edge of time and space.
The installation ‘Melting snowflakes’ invites the public to immerse images of snowflakes printed with water-soluble ink on rice paper in water, watching the process of disintegration of the paper and the gradual disappearance of the images in the water.
The artist revisits the use of salt in her installation, placing white and black-charcoal salt in different sized glass vessels, encouraging the public to ‘mix’ the salts.
The musicians Aleksandar Chapovski Gillian, Nadja Todorovic, Zoé Pietrzniak and Ryan Forster are invited to create a live sound in the space of the Oratory, reimagining and remeasuring the Icelandic landscape.