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Rachel Honnery, 'The Plastosystem' (detail) 2017, repurposed plastic bags. Image courtesy: the artist
Exhibition

Rachel Honnery: The Plastosystem

Rachel Honnery: The Plastosystem
  • When 16 Mar - 14 Apr 2018
  • Where
    UNSW Galleries
  • Address
    CNR OXFORD ST & GREENS RD PADDINGTON NSW 2021
  • Hours
    TUES TO SAT, 10AM–5PM
  • Phone
    +61 2 8936 0888

Rachel Honnery utilises a science-fiction lens to understand the transformative effects of climate change on the environment. Combining scientific investigation, method and data with visual analysis and interpretation, Honnery's work reminds us of the vast and overwhelming challenges that we confront in the age of the Anthropocene.

'The Plastosystem' represents an underwater graveyard to the past and a predictor of a future malignant environment. The installation visualises hybrid marine creatures that have been forced to evolve in order to survive in an environment polluted by plastic. Fostering a scientifc approach to art making, Honnery considers a future dystopian marine environment that may not be so far away.

 

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Images: Installation view, 'Rachel Honnery: The Plastosystem' UNSW Galleries, 2018. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.