Don’t forget me (2013)

Installation views at c3 Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne. Sculptural and audio installation: Paper, cardboard, foamcore, adhesives, spray paint, audio. 1:1 scale models, dimensions variable. Photos: Georgia Papagiannis.

‘Don’t forget me’ is a sculptural and audio installation that reflects on how Australian mythologies and film representations of being lost in the landscape, particularly the desert, might resonate with contemporary realities. In the installation, samples from Australian film are remixed with some of the forgotten fragments that litter some of these landscapes in a current context. Developed in response to time spent in the Central Australian Desert, through an artist residency at Watch This Space, Alice Springs, the sculptures draw on some of the peripheral dialogues and diversions encountered between these forgotten fragments as they accumulate and merge with cultural stereotypes of the desert. In the installation, crushed and ripped beer cans, dirty plastic bags, a trashed road sign, security fencing, scattered red rocks and broken glass are reassembled and reconstructed into alternate paper propositions, merging with a soundscape that reconstructs fragments from Picnic at Hanging Rock. Shifting and overlapping between the sites of Hanging Rock, The Central Australian Desert and The Abbotsford Convent, the installation reflects on how filmic representations of being lost in the landscape collapse the specifics of places and how these specifics might generate tangents in the representations.