𝙨𝙖𝙙 𝙩𝙤𝙥𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙮
17 February–10 March, 2024
𝐝𝐲𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢ć
Alongside an ongoing cultural shift towards STEM practices (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) there is a myth cultivating that these forms of making are objective, or some reflection of an unbiased truth. sad topology is an attempt to draw out an emotional quality from technical things by examining the interconnectedness of nature, human, and machine. The works incorporate video, sound, and sculptural elements that combine organic and synthetic detritus collected from the urban parklands of the inner north. There is a unique network of infrastructure, waste, and flora present withing these landscapes that for me, elicits an emotional response.
In mathematics, topology is preserved through stretching bending and folding geometries and it is changed through, cutting, drilling and splitting them. In information sciences it is the way things are connected or networked. More broadly topology is used to describe the essence of a system or thing. I am wondering whether it can be used to describe us. As in the way we are networked or our bodies and emotions. How many knots we have or holes punched. How we form new relationships or the ways we become disconnected.
𝐝𝐲𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢ć is a spatial and digital media artist living and working in Naarm/Melbourne. He completed a Master of Fine art at RMIT university in 2023 and Bachelor of. Architecture at UTS in 2017. His work predominantly explores interfaces between nature and technology.