Andrew Hazewinkel

Commissioned by the Art Gallery Of New South Wales for the exhibition The National: New Australian Art 2019, The Ongoing Remains: 3 Parts comprised sculptural, moving image and photographic elements presented at multiple sites thoughout the Gallery's Neo-Classical and Modernist architectures.

The twenty-six unique state casts comprising The Ongoing Remains Part 1: The Emissaries, Keepers of our Stories result from Hazewinkel's intentionally imprecise casting process. Working with two sets of three-part moulds, taken from the same subject, he interchanges the two sets individual components implementing a strategy of intentional misalignment. Interchanging the component parts of the two moulds enables him to produce unique hybrid moulds for each pour, which are then further individualised by being subjected to differing localised external pressures.

Here the intention is not to reproduce uniform copies, rather unique states which explore and exploit resulting processual anomalies.