28 SEPTEMBER - 22 OCTOBER 2022
FRONT GALLERY

MIRIAM SIMS
BLIND SPOT

Blind Spot uses the encounters and poetics of the everyday to choreograph bodies towards overlooked ‘in-between’ sites.

The work forms part of an ongoing theoretical and material investigation of thresholds in public spaces through critical improvisations, physicality, and ritual.

Repetitive objects such as convex safety mirrors form a transcript of the everywhere/nowhere spaces common to urban landscapes and the inner suburbia of ‘Australia’.

Blind Spot facilitates a dialogue exploring the significance of physical interaction with these sites. The work is about encounters of testing, playing, and questioning the objects that appear and are affixed to public spaces.

Text wraps the walls forming a diagram that explores the physical paths of performance that could unfold. The walls of the gallery become an instruction manual to reconsider in-between spaces. The text is poetry, prompt, and composition. The sculptures in this exhibition remove

the convex mirror from these transitory sites, and their changing context invites you to study their materiality.

Your actions are as much the work as the objects on the wall.

The tactile urge to test all mirrors found both inside and outside the gallery space is encouraged. Unlike the potential disappointment of testing mirrors in public, where reaching and pressing can result in a dissatisfying hard surface, all these mirrors all render a playful affect.

The warping of the relationship between mirror and space does not exist without your action. The jumping, stretching, reaching, reworking, creates an event of everyday wonder.

ARTIST BIO

Miriam Sims is an artist practicing in Tarntanya (Adelaide) in so-called South Australia. Her practice is concerned with slippages in language, meaning and image making. Working across sculpture, installation, glass, drawing and performance she hopes to see thresholds and ‘in-between spaces’ as critical sites for improvisation. Recently graduating a Bachelor of Contemporary Art she is using a practice steeped in sculpture practices towards undertaking a Bachelor of Architecture. Her practice fits into a wider discourse of precarious public practices, critique and cultivation of moments of improvisation within built environments.