Unstable object #11
(2014)
from The unstable object series 2014–
Medium
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
Measurements
150.5 × 150.4 cm
Credit Line
Gift of Samuel Barnes through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program, 2025
©v Antonia Sellbach
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
Antonia Sellbach’s Unstable Object series consists of forty-six large-scale paintings that explore the possibilities of one repeated form: a painted ‘beam mark’. By repeating this form in various colours, angles and lengths, Sellbach, in her own words, ‘builds through painting’. Sellbach borrows the idea of seeing the same thing in multiple ways from philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s 1953 book Philosophical Investigations. According to Wittgenstein, each new viewing creates new meanings and associations that become swept up into the layered narrative of the work.