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Fiona Davies [USYD]
when: Opening night Thursday 23 September 2010, 6-8pm. Exhibition continues until Wednesday 20 October 2010.
cost: Free.
where: The Physics Building, Foyer, University of Sydney.
From Fiona Davies:
Please come along to the opening of this installation
Memorial/Double Pump/Laplace II by Fiona Davies 23rd September – 20th October 2010, Mon to Fri 9 – 5 p.m. This is one of three in a series, loosely based on narratives of the dying and death of my father in 2001. The installations have been located in sites that were important in how Dad defined himself;the first in 2006 in Aberdeen, NSW where he grew up, the second in the Physics Building at Sydney University where he studied as an undergraduate and the third in 2009 in Lincoln College, Oxford University, where he undertook postgraduate study.
From the eleven and a half months Dad was in hospital, one memory is that I think I was told by a nurse on an early morning shift that she had given Dad twenty-three units of blood which he had bled out into his stomach cavity.
Relatively impermeable membranes are often selectively permeable; objects make their own way where they choose and in their own time. The materials used in the work also work as membranes that separate, allowing some things to pass and some to be caught or retained.