The Ongoing Remains Part 3 - Continuum: The Persistence of Being 2019
digital Type C prints in brass frames
overall dimensions 61.5 x 150 cm
Commissioned by the Art Gallery Of New South Wales Sydney, for the exhibition The National 2019: New Australian Art, The Ongoing Remains: 3 Parts comprised sculptural elements (Part 1), moving image elements (Part 2) and photographic elements (Part 3). Parts 1, 2 and 3 were presented at diverse sites thoughout the Gallery's Neo-Classical and Modernist architectures.
Part 1: The Emissaries, Keepers of our Stories - installed in the Gallery’s Entrance Vestibule and Grand Court- comprised 26 unique state, intentionally misaligned casts based on the fifteenth century portrait of Niccolò da Uzzano, attributed to the Italian Renaissance master Donatello.
Part 2: Wit(h)ness, A Haunting a 59.19 min single channel HD video projection representing the wearing away of an edition of the casts created for Part 1 amid soft white clouds of dust. It was installed at large scale within the context of the nineteenth century sculpture collection in the Gallery’s Old Courts.
Part 3: Continuum, The Persistence of Being, (featured here) comprised photographic portraits of cast residues generated through production of Part 2. A selection of these portraits were installed in galleries on the level below.
See The Ongoing Remains Part 1- The Emissaries: Keepers of our stories here
See The Ongoing Remains Part 2- Wit(h)ness: A Haunting here
Download a copy of the exhibition catalogue text on Hazewinkel's project by Professor Ross Gibson here
Documentation photographs by Zan Wimberely
