Weathering Time, Place & Space
Torin Francis In Conversation with Robert Andrew

Join us for a conversation between artists Torin Francis and Robert Andrew discussing the interrelatedness and materiality of body, place, atmosphere and time in the exhibition, ‘When do we look out, when do we look in?’.

WHEN: 6-7pm, Thursday 22 February

WHERE: Outer Space Gallery, JWAC, 420 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley⁠

When do we look out, when do we look in? is a continuation of research and investigation into the material properties of weather balloons and the interrelationships between body, time and space. Through a site responsive approach, Francis unpacks ideas of temporality and impermanency in relation to the body through sculptural intervention. Water is used as a material and metaphor for time cycles and torn remnants of latex balloons are suspended in states of transition. When do we look out, when do we look in? looks to unpack the complexities and limitations of Western conceptions of linear time and the impact of place on shaping understandings of spatiotemporal experience. 

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Robert Andrew is a descendant of the Yawuru people, whose Country is the lands and waters of the Broome area in the Kimberley Region, Western Australia. Andrew’s work investigates the personal and family histories that have been denied or forgotten. His work speaks to the past yet articulates a contemporary relationship to his Country—using technology to make visible the interconnecting spiritual, cultural, physical, and historical relationships with the land, waters, sky, and all living things. Andrew’s work often combines programmable machinery with earth pigments, ochres, rocks and soil to mine historical, cultural and personal events that have been buried and distanced by the dominant paradigms of western culture.

Torin Francis is a Meanjin (Brisbane) based artist originally from London. His practice considers the devices we use to quantify, navigate, and comprehend the way in which the passing of time is perceived and experienced. This engagement with these mechanisms is explored through poetic relationships between objects and space in site-responsive installations, kinetic sculpture, assemblage, and moving image works.