Proscenium

Visual perspectives appear to magically shift in Colette Robbins’ Proscenium. Seemingly placed through and across frames of time, the work evokes an uncertain, ancient past. The central figures — two meticulously textured feet adorned with spiky sea urchin-like shapes — feel strangely human despite their stony, porous surfaces and detachment from the body. Using the language of sculpture, these digital feet occupy a weight, presence, and cultural significance, a certain monumentality imbuing an untold mythological narrative related to time and the traversal through geographic space that leads one home. Home remains unfixed, as polysemic as the reflective surfaces and repeated shapes in the image, and as elusive as the mythological place from which these feet originate.

Event Horizon is an exquisite corpse-influenced collaborative work comprising of four digital images individually created by the founding members of the artist collective Organic Material: Mark Dorf, Skye Nicolas, Amir H Fallah, and Colette Robbins

5 Sec Looped Video 3840 x 2160px, MP4 2022