Sundari Carmody, Lot Fourteen
Image: Sundari Carmody, One: all that we can see, 2022, Lot Fourteen. Photograph Sam Roberts.
Sundari Carmody
One: all that we can see, 2022
Lot Fourteen
Commissioned by the Department of the Premier and Cabinet
Creative Partner: Exhibition Studios
Guildhouse was invited by The Department of the Premier and Cabinet to undertake an assessment, provide advice and recommend an approach for the delivery of a public artwork at the Lot Fourteen site. Through a limited selection process Guildhouse Professional Services engaged artist Sundari Carmody and paired her with design and fabrication experts Exhibition Studios, in order to create her design at scale. Guildhouse was engaged to manage the delivery of the artwork from concept design stages through to installation and public launch.
Carmody’s piece is an evocative and elegant addition to the public realm. Her research in physics and the unseen has led to the development of this work that asks us to consider what exists beyond our conscious reality.
One: all that we can see represents the ratio suggested by contemporary physicists between the visible and the invisible universe; the hypothesis that dark matter and dark energy make up ninety-five per cent of the universe, leaving only five per cent of ‘normal matter’ visible.
The striking four-metre diameter black steel tubular ring, also comprises a small but high intensity LED component set into the top of the ring, symbolising the five per cent of ‘normal matter’.
Artist Biography
Sundari Carmody is an Adelaide based artist. Her practice concerns itself with the question of how to engage with universal systems and aspects of being, which linger in the category of the unknown, in ‘the dark’. She attempts to find useful frameworks to give form to things that are invisible or which lie just beyond the limits of our perception. Relevant precedents to her methodology include research in the areas of dark matter, sleep and the study of nocturnal creatures. The scope of her investigations take into account the scientific, cultural, physiological and psychological aspects of ‘the dark’.
One: All that we can see is accompanied by an essay written by Belinda Howden, May 2022, commissioned by Guildhouse.
Images: Sundari Carmody, One: all that we can see, 2022, Lot Fourteen. Photographs Sam Roberts.
Image: Sundari Carmody, One: all that we can see, 2022, in fabrication at Exhibition Studios. Photograph courtesy Exhibition Studios.
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