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Brook Andrew, Unorientable, 2019.
Dimensions variable. Steel, plywood, American oak, Tasmanian blackwood detail, brass, paper, oil pastel, purified beeswax, damar resin, 0.5mm PVC, 0.2mm chrome PVC and items from the artist’s archive. Commissioned by Lyon Foundation.
Brook Andrew, Unorientable, 2019.
Dimensions variable. Steel, plywood, American oak, Tasmanian blackwood detail, brass, paper, oil pastel, purified beeswax, damar resin, 0.5mm PVC, 0.2mm chrome PVC and items from the artist’s archive. Commissioned by Lyon Foundation.
Brook Andrew, Unorientable, 2019.
Dimensions variable. Steel, plywood, American oak, Tasmanian blackwood detail, brass, paper, oil pastel, purified beeswax, damar resin, 0.5mm PVC, 0.2mm chrome PVC and items from the artist’s archive. Commissioned by Lyon Foundation.
Brook Andrew, Unorientable, 2019.
Dimensions variable. Steel, plywood, American oak, Tasmanian blackwood detail, brass, paper, oil pastel, purified beeswax, damar resin, 0.5mm PVC, 0.2mm chrome PVC and items from the artist’s archive. Commissioned by Lyon Foundation.
Brook Andrew, Unorientable, 2019.
Dimensions variable. Steel, plywood, American oak, Tasmanian blackwood detail, brass, paper, oil pastel, purified beeswax, damar resin, 0.5mm PVC, 0.2mm chrome PVC and items from the artist’s archive. Commissioned by Lyon Foundation.
Sculpture commissioned by the Lyon Foundation and first shown in the group exhibition ENTER, curated by Corbett Lyon, Fleur Watson at the Housemuseum Galleries, Victoria, 16 March – 21 July 2019.
Unorientable is a new view of earth’s history, purposefully split into two, comprising a Möbius strip smothered in oil, wax, paper and historical objects and with a floating, ominous reflective metallic sphere. The Möbius strip has a surface with only one side and only one boundary, highlighting the single-minded view of historical narratives that still pervade world viewpoints and control international opinion. In this sculpture, pages of an 1881 French account of Robinson Crusoe are entwined with chess pieces that reflect the historical narrative of Christopher Columbus. The mixing of fiction and fact aims to implode dominant views on how this earth was seeded through colonial greed under the guide of ‘exploration and science.’
Lyon Housemuseum
219 Cotham Road
Kew, VIC 3101, Australia