Installation shots of Sandra Uray-Kennett's work as part of Take Care, at Arts SA and the State Admin Centre, 2012, which I curated as part of the Arts SA emerging Curators program.
There’s a bell jar inside my diving bell filled
with butterflies inside my clothes, Ariel, 2008, Bell Jars, lace, clothing, paint,
sweat, tears
This room holds out the real world, framing a moment of stillness
Art, for pleasure and sense, but
are you finally left with a sense of enigma? What isn’t it saying? What doesn’t
it express? What does it refuse to surrender?
Unyielding thoughtfulness
What is done out of love always
takes place beyond good and evil.
Thank you Nietzsche
Strange Loops, Disturbances and Electric Chairs, 2011, key, pins, tracing paper, diamond
breath
Every time we breathe out, small water molecules are emitted, so too are carbon molecules. Diamonds, set alight, react with the oxygen in the air and turn into carbon dioxide. Carbon is diamonds is carbon so does that mean we breathe out diamonds too?
Diamonds are forever
The end of your breath is the
beginning of mine, breathe me
Catching Breath When all Things Achieve Nothingness,
2011, Metal lampshades, material, screws,
shadows
Your diamond droplets of breath
The truth is so tantalizing
Pardon me friends, I have ventured
to make our breath in the space
The end of you is the beginning of
mine
But when no one is watching, then
where are you? Where are you then?
Photography: Amelia O'Connor Photography
Words: Sandra Uray-Kennett
