the trail, 2018

the trail installation view. (with A Gawronski)
the trail installation view. (with A Gawronski)
video still from surveillance footage.
video still from surveillance footage.

5 minute video. mp4
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Supernature, 2018

Supernature, 2018
Supernature, 2018

Installation view with Scott Donovan.

SuperNature: CARLA CESCON/SCOTT DONOVAN

‘The so-called balance of nature, which humankind brutally destroys with its hubris, is a myth.’ Slavoj Zizek

‘Nature is Satan’s church.’ Lars von Tries (from the film Anti-Christ, 2010)

The countryside around the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site has in recent years, and against all expectations, regenerated. The forest is once again rich with fauna and flora, confounding scientists and delighting the few surviving villagers who remain in the area. Nature, it seems, is not so easily beaten.

The exhibition SuperNaturetakes its cue from literature and film inspired by apocalyptic and catastrophic events in which nature is represented as a malign force - infinitely adaptable and wilfully destructive – challenging the primacy of mankind’s control of the planet. In this Darwinian struggle plants and animals reign supreme, genetically altered hybrids better equipped to cope with an unstable and unforgiving environment. It is a world as unfamiliar and terrifying as that encountered by explorers of the past in which nature was both a cause of wonder and an existential threat.

Scott Donovan
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P.I.S.S, 2015

Cotton curtain, paint, stool, audio mp3.

from the exhibition ‘Kitten drowning in a well’

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inside tent, detail.

inside tent, detail.
Kitten drowning in a well. 55 Sydenham Road, (Gallery and studios)
Kitten drowning in a well. 55 Sydenham Road, (Gallery and studios)
Exhibition view.

Exhibition view.
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Rite for eternal life, 2015

from “Death” Casula Powerhouse Museum.

Suit, paper, paint, light, polyurethane

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Electronic sound phenomena, 2015
Electronic sound phenomena, 2015

part of the ‘Death’ exhibition at Casula Powerhouse Museum.

Tape decks, radios, scanners, table and chairs

variable size.
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untitled, 2015
untitled, 2015

Photographic series from documenting an empty nursing home.

Digital prints on rag paper.

60x50

Atmosphere 2014

radiation suit, light, glass, paint and paper

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the Interview 2013

the Interview, 2013
the Interview, 2013

Video by Martyn Ives, chair, paper, cloth, hair and wire

WAIT, 2012

Clothes, polyurethane, table, chair, mobile phone playing audio sound track of ambient music.

150x150x150cm

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Transmission

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E.V.P., electronic voice phenomena, 2012

tape & radio players, scanners, lights, paper, table and chairs, headphones.

Part of the exhibition Maxamilist Ritualist, with Clare Milledge at Experimental Art Foundation Adelaide. (AU)

Electronic Visual Phenomena, 2007

observing white noise through televisions. Artspace Sydney (AU)

Installation: Posters, text, paper, polyurethane, televisions, visual diary copied on the walls.

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Electronic visual phenomena observing white noise through televisions. Installation: Posters, text, paper, polyurethane, televisions.
Electronic visual phenomena observing white noise through televisions. Installation: Posters, text, paper, polyurethane, televisions.
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Camps and outposts, 2009

Part of exhibition titles Sylvania Waters at Hazelhurst Gallery. (Syd)

3 site work linked by 2 way radio.

2 way radio, cloth, umbrella, wood, metal

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letters, 2006

open letters as notices and objects that can be read.

performance

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life force 2003

Life force box, detail.
Life force box, detail.

polyurethane, pigment.

60x50x50cm
life force box, detail of top panel 2003
life force box, detail of top panel 2003

polyurethane, pigment.

50x40x5cm
life force, 2003
life force, 2003

latex, pigment

30x20x20cm

Brainwash

Brain Wash and blade. 2003
Brain Wash and blade. 2003

Resistance through Rituals

West Space Melbourne.

Polaroid.
Brain Wash.
Brain Wash.

Polystyrene, resin, metal, pigment.

dimensions variable.
Brain wash, detail.
Brain wash, detail.

drawing and painting

selected drawings

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objects and single works

pods, 2001
pods, 2001

latex, pigment

100x100x20cm
roost, 2000
roost, 2000

polyurethane, enamel paint

100x150x40cm
untitled, 2005
untitled, 2005

polyurethane, wire pigment.

100cmx60c60cm
untitled, 2012
untitled, 2012

video, cloth & paper doll

60c40x30cm
untitled, 2009
untitled, 2009

porcelain, cloth, lamp. synthetic hair.

60x60x50cm
untitled, 2001
untitled, 2001

polyform.

60x60x20cm
3 Busts, 2005
3 Busts, 2005

plaster, pigment

50x80x50
Not who I thought, 2005
Not who I thought, 2005

resin, polyurethane, pigment.

60x40x30
Not who I thought, detail. 2005.
Not who I thought, detail. 2005.
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