Category: Soft Science
Soft Science City in Cities Foretold
Soft Science City will feature in the group show Cities Foretold.
Soft Science City highlights the fact that the metropolis is always in flux; it’s a work-in-progress, a kind of dynamic experiment in coexistence. In Soft Science City cold rational laboratory glass meets warm soft knitting. And here, these opposites not only attract, they are inextricably linked. Working together they form a mini-metropolis in which fuzzy logic is made manifest. In other words, there are no precise solutions offered by this experiment, no single right answer. But it does point out that diversity and inclusion are key factors in creating a thriving city.
Cities Foretold
1 Sept – 2 Oct
Art Space on the Concourse
Chatswood, NSW
Soft Science at Sheffer Gallery
Tracey Clement, ‘Soft Science Diagram’ (detail), 2018, vintage laboratory glass, knitted and wound acrylic yarn, MDF, pine.
Tracey Clement: Soft Science
Sheffer Gallery
38 Lander Street
Darlington
12 – 22 December 2018
Weds – Sat, 11am – 6pm
Tracey Clement is known for creating artworks that meticulously utilise labour intensive techniques for their conceptual resonance. In Soft Science she turns her attention to knitting, a skill still largely regarded as women’s work.
In Soft Science, when the domestic feminine act of knitting is made an integral part of a laboratory experiment, we are asked to acknowledge two truths: that women have always made a significant contribution to the supposedly masculine domain of science, and that the hard facts of science are not the only way to make sense of the world.
Soft Science highlights the fact that there is more than one way to skin Schrödinger’s cat. In a secular society we tend to look to the quantifiable facts of science for meaning. But art too is a way of understanding the world; a knowledge generating system which is different, but no less valid.
In Soft Science, when cold rational laboratory glass meets soft warm knitting, fuzzy logic is made manifest. In other words, there is no right answer in an experiment calculated to prove, if it proves anything at all, that truth is a mutable concept and that much of the universe may be ultimately unknowable.
Soft Science
Tracey Clement, ‘What goes around…,’ acrylic yarn and petrie dishes, 2018.
Please save the date for my upcoming solo show, Soft Science, opening 12 December.
In Soft Science, cold, rational laboratory glass meets warm, fuzzy knitting in an elaborate faux experiment designed to prove (if it proves anything at all) that the universe is ultimately un-knowable.
WATCH me making What goes around...
Soft Science
Sheffer Gallery
38 Lander Street
Darlington
12 – 22 December 2018
Opening: Wednesday 12 Dec, 6-8pm
Soft Science: City
Tracey Clement, ‘Soft Science City I,’ 2018, laboratory glass and knitted acrylic, dimensions variable, max height 50cm.
The first work in my Soft Science series, Soft Science: City, debuted in the group show Couplings in April 2018.
Curators Helen Hyatt-Johnston and Brad Buckley selected 30 artists (who are also couples) to exhibit together, including me and my partner Peter Burgess.
Read the Couplings e-catalogue here
Couplings
Dominik Mersch Gallery
11 April – 12 May 2018
Opening: Tuesday 10 April, 6–8pm
Tracey Clement: artist and writer 