Sea, Salt and Silk
Video + Installation + Live sound
9 April
The Oratory, Abbotsford Convent
Photo: Marjan Stojkovski
Photo: Marjan Stojkovski
Melting Snowflake, 2024
Photo: Minako Kanda
Photo: Minako Kanda
Mixing Salt. participatory installation 2024. White and charcoal salt, glass, table, cloth
Photo: Minako Kanda
Soundscape by Aleksandar Chapovski Gillian, Nadja Todorovic, Zoé Pietrzniak and Ryan Forster
Sea, Salt and Silk
Exhibition by Violeta Čapovska
Video + Installation + Live sound
9 April
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 works, Measurements (1, 2 and 3), 2023 and Sea, Salt and Silk, 2023, are 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, observing the paper's disintegration and the images' gradual disappearance.
In her installation, the artist revisits the use of salt by placing white and black charcoal salt in glass vessels of various sizes, 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.
