Standing mirror
(2018)
from the Other places series 2018
Medium
synthetic polymer resin
Measurements
182.5 × 121.2 × 69.5 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by Jo Horgan and MECCA Brands, 2019
© Elliat Rich/Courtesy Sophie Gannon Gallery
Photo: Sean Fennessy
Gallery location
Gallery 9
Level 2, NGV Australia
About this work
This mirror by designer Elliat Rich seeks to capture the elusive haze that settles over Australia’s mountain ranges when seen from a great distance – a chromatic phenomenon shaped by eucalyptus vapour, dust, light and atmospheric depth. Neither fixed nor nameable, this shifting colour field becomes the conceptual anchor for the work, which bends, refracts and merges light to evoke landscapes that are both seen and imagined through memory. Part illusion and part material presence, the mirror operates as a threshold between perception and memory.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Melbourne, Victoria
Edition
ed. 1/8
Accession Number
2018.665
Department
Contemporary Design and Architecture