Monochrome
(2025)
author(s): Julija Matic
published in: Research Catalogue
Occupying a space whilst being one ourselves.
The materiality of the body coming in a state of symbiosis with the places it chooses to position itself and the objects it chooses to surround itself with.
Deconstruct and reconstruct. Remove parts of yourself, shed skin, cut your hair, change your weight, add others, change.
The transfiguration of one’s materic flesh, in the progressive becoming one with the environment that surrounds it.
The research begins from the consideration of the body taken as material, as a space, a meeting point between exteriority and interiority. The body that shares its own materiality with the places it finds itself in; they influence eachother.
Bird → ∞
(last edited: 2025)
author(s): Kirill Arkadiev
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
I work at the boundary where a finite biological object asymptotically approaches zero and, through this disappearance, gives birth to an infinite aesthetic event — a singularity.
The series “Singularity of Beauty” is an ongoing investigation into the moment when decay, entropy, and controlled human intervention collide to rupture the visible world and generate a new, non-representational order.
Method: Asymptotic Ritual
A chosen organic system (bird, bouquet, insect colony, fungal network) is placed on a prepared surface and deliberately abandoned to natural forces — heat, humidity, insects, gravity, time.
During a fixed ritual period (7 days in the current cycle), the object decays following an exponential law analogous to f(t) = a·e⁻ᵏᵗ. The artist is absent; only documentation occurs.
At t → ∞ (practically: when the biological object approaches zero), the artist re-enters as a second asymptotic operator. Selective pigment application, removal of material, and layering transform the residue into a visual limit — a singularity point where the initial object has vanished, yet infinite meaning emerges.
The final state is neither representation nor abstraction; it is the frozen event of the limit itself.
Core Principles
Decay is not a theme; it is the first author.
Time is treated as a physical material with measurable half-life.
Human intervention functions as a controlled perturbation that forces the system past its natural equilibrium into aesthetic infinity.
The resulting image is a palimpsest of two incompatible temporalities: biological time (unstoppable) and artistic time (intermittent, intentional).
The “demon” is not a depicted figure but the mathematical event of the singularity: the instant when order, passing through zero, becomes infinite and alien.
Painting as Discourse
(last edited: 2019)
author(s): Andrew Bracey
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
'Painting-As-Discourse' is a methodology to complement painting practice with a reflection of “on action and in action” (Gray & Malins, 2004, p21) that is central to the research and its findings. Selected individuals (from a range of expertise and levels of knowledge of the author's research) have partaken ‘Painting-As-Discourse’ conversations with Bracey in regard to one body of practice (ReconFigure Paintings), through the course of his PhD. In this way the artistic researcher has been encouraged and challenged about what he is saying verbally about the practice and being encouraged to respond to new readings and possibilities for the research. Each conversations is then used to form an ongoing series of revised statements about the work, following the approach of Elizabeth Price’s ‘Sidekick’ (Price, 2006). Each revised statement is given to the most recent 'Painting-As-Discourse' participant prior to the conversation to act as a spur for the conversation.
Gray, C. and Malins, J. (2004), Visualising Research: A Guide to the Research Process in Art and Design. Ashgate.
Price, E. “Sidekick.” In Thinking Through Art, edited by Macleod, K. & Holdridge, L. (2006), Oxford and New York: Routledge, p122-132.
Occupying a space whilst being one ourselves. The materiality of the body coming in a state of symbiosis with the places it chooses to position itself and the objects it chooses to surround itself with. Deconstruct and reconstruct. Remove parts of yourself, shed skin, cut your hair, change your weight, add others, change. The transfiguration of one’s materic flesh, in the progressive becoming one with the environment that surrounds it. The research begins from the consideration of the body taken as material, as a space, a meeting point between exteriority and interiority. The body that shares its own materiality with the places it finds itself in; they influence eachother.open exposition comments (0)