The Ongoing Remains Part 1 - The Emissaries, Keepers of our stories 2019
26 unique state casts on steel bases
gypsum cement, titanium pigment, blackened steel
cast dimensions vary approximately 46 x 21 x 22 cm
base dimensions 130 x 33.5 x 33.5 cm
overall installaled dimensions vary
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 that were presented at diverse sites distributed though the Gallery's Neo-Classical and Modernist architecture.
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 individual components of the two sets 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. The localised external pressure causes individual mould parts to push up and slide down against each other (like fault-lines in geological settings) creating individuating seams and revealing internal planes.
Here the intention is not to reproduce uniform copies, rather to generate unique-states which explore and exploit resulting processual anomalies.
Installation views photographed by Andrew Hazewinkel, studio documentation by Zan Wimberley
