Gomathi Suresh, Precarity, 2024, porcelain, Stoneware, found wood
Drawing on the history of antimony mining in the Maroondah region during the nineteenth century, this exhibition by Gomathi Suresh explored a symbolic link between its industrial past and a critically endangered species of the present: the Kilsyth South Spider-orchid, of which only three plants are known to survive in the wild.
The circular symbiotic dance of the orchid, the wasp and the fungus in the fragile ecology of Bungalook Conservation Reserve is the central theme of Mutualism. The exhibition invited a deep and embodied interrogation of our present-day urban lives, as a way to re-imagine our future.
For more information contact Arts in Maroondah on 0417 915 347 or email gallery@maroondah.vic.gov.au.
Maroondah Federation Estate Gallery, 32 Greenwood Avenue, Ringwood, 3134, View map
32 Greenwood Avenue , Ringwood 3134
Free
The exhibition can be viewed from Monday 11 November 2024 until Friday 24 January 2025.
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