works | Plasticity 2024

4K video converted to HD, computer-generated animation, video and sound, 3-minute excerpt of 9:43-minute total running time.

This body of work was inspired by Alain Resnais’ 1959 film Le chant du Styrène (‘The Song of Plastic’), and the behind-the-scenes labour of digital work. The exhibition includes large-scale digital prints and a 3D-modelled and animated short film that explores the contemporary value placed on plasticity of form, liquidity of assets, and hybridity between virtual and real worlds. This is set against the use of motion capture to introduce the human element of fragile and contingent bodies. Much like the hype surrounding the technology of plastic in 1959, the socio-environmental impacts of the emerging technologies of the 21st Century are likely to play out in ways we cannot predict. 

The exhibition was held at Woollahra Gallery, Sydney, from April 17 - May 12, 2024.