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18th BIENNALE OF SYDNEY CATALOGUE

Edited by Catherine de Zegher and Gerald McMaster

"Transitional Fields: Empathy and Affinity" by Philip Beesley in collaboration with Jonathan Tyrrell

"What, if any, is the link between the material and emotional realms? When the Roman philosopher and poet Lucretius watched motes of dust quivering and darting within the sunbeams of his window, he saw atoms at play. Rolling and wavering, the dust spoke of decay and loss; possibility, specious circumstance in flux: corrupted, damaged, and dying swerves. And a vague, shaded shift of life arising too - the semiquaver of living seeds..."

18th Biennale of Sydney Catalogue
Edited by Catherine de Zegher and Gerald McMaster
First Edition 2012 ISBN 978-0-646-57199-7