𝙂𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙡𝙚 𝘼𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙚

19 January–8 February, 2024

𝐄𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚 𝐁𝐨𝐬𝐜𝐚​

 

When we no longer have churches, where are people in an increasingly secular society allowed to go to simply sit and contemplate? In late stage capitalism there is a poverty of mainstream modern Australian rituals; there is a poverty of places outside of home or work where there is no expectation to spend money.

 

There are lots of reasons for having clear-felled and burnt our own traditions since the 1960s, and some of them are very good reasons. But I’m not sure what we’ve replaced them with. When we tear down institutions like the Catholic Church, and rightly so, we create an absence of explicit, widely-shared and enriching rites of passage into adulthood.

 

𝙂𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙡𝙚 𝘼𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙚 is not a sacred place yet co-opts many functional aspects of a Church. The church pew-like benches offer a place of rest and an opportunity for deep contemplation in a busy metropolis. Without dogma or creed, 𝙂𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙡𝙚 𝘼𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙚 provides space outside of Religious institutions to simply exist and reflect.

 

‘𝙂𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙡𝙚 𝘼𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙚 is dedicated to my favourite person, my biggest support, and my close friend – my Dad, Grant Della Bosca.’

 

 

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𝐄𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚 𝐁𝐨𝐬𝐜𝐚 is an emerging artist from Naarm with a practice in sculpture and installation. Eric’s sculptural and spatial practice is an intricate relationship between romantic engineering and materiality; giving rise to structures and forms that embody a fusion of emotion and raw substance.

 

At the core of Eric’s methodology is an infusion of  personal narratives, spirituality, queerness, and an overly sentimental perspective. This transformative process turns typically cold, hard, and masculine materials into expressions of delicacy and warmth, carrying a palpable fragility. The sculptures and installations that emerge from this process become vessels for storytelling, a realm where the tangible and intangible converge; boundaries between artist and material dissolve into an emotive dance of form and feeling.​​​​​​​​