BLACKARTPROJECTS & BRIDIE LUNNEY PRESENT
SHE COULD TASTE THE METAL IN HER MOUTH LIKE BLOOD B L A C K
SHE COULD TASTE THE METAL IN HER MOUTH LIKE BLOOD Chalk Horse Lower Ground 171 William Street Darlinghurst, Sydney, Australia 9 - 18 July, 2015
SHE COULD TASTE THE METAL IN HER MOUTH LIKE BLOOD She could taste the metal in her mouth like blood standing in the place where the house used to be. The roof now forced below the foundation and the body’s relationship to architecture inverted. Materials caught in stasis after the fierce activation of fire; familiar yet unrecognisable. The space was no longer a collection of domestic objects contained within four walls, everything fused into a cohesive whole without hierarchy. Acknowledging the house she grew up in destroyed by fire as a genesis for her practice, Bridie Lunney’s works are developed intuitively as well as in relation to the site of presentation. Performative and sculptural gestures within the works punctuate relationships between architectural space, objects and the body. Relationships, which suggest the poetic mimesis of psychological spaces. At stake in Lunney’s process for this work is the apprehension of the moment of transformation, the location of a threshold in our understanding. Lunney animates her objects with a libidinal energy and engages a dialectical economy that brings together disparate and distinct materials and forms. She is interested in the tension or charge activated by that which renders the object a vital presence at the site of transformation.
The body has a way of softening the edges of architecture (2014) brass, digital print 51 x 24 x 30 cm
Yield (2012) steel 180 x 2.5 x 20 cm
A Stand Off of Forces (2015) steel, marble, apothecary bottle, ashes from a burnt library, drinking glasses, concrete 145 x 50 x 180 cm
Coppice (2015) burnt red gum, brass 10 x 20 x 24 cm
An Imprecise Reduction (2015) steel, marks from a seven hour performance of matches being struck into the corner, brass, freshwater pearl 240 x 60 x 101 cm
Deliberate Surrender (2015) anodized aluminium 18 x 62 x 16 cm
The sweet dark things that can do me harm (2015) brass, polyurethane, tar, steel 204 x 13 x 10 cm
A dark moment (2014) drinking glass, patinated bronze 8 x 27 x 11 cm
Marrow (2015) bone, polyurethane, whitening, brass 11 x 14 x 39 cm
Whispering hole (2015) bone dimensions variable
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