LOUIE MANGIALARDI

"INTEROBJECTS"

LOUIE MANGIALARDI

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An Interobject is a dream phenomena wherein two or more objects meld together yet remain indeterminable, existing not as a fixed chimeric entity but fluctuating with ambiguous being.

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What is the difference between a dream and waking life? In moments of lucidity within either state we feel we have tuned into something certain only for it to slip away. The fantastic experiences of a dream are as easily accepted as mundanity. Can mundainity in waking life be accepted as fantastic? Interobjects centres itself around an overgrown wattle fence labyrinth. The path of this labyrinth is now unwalkable but its meditative presence, increasingly ambiguous with each passing season, remains. The memory of its path settles and condenses upon the textured surface of a cast concrete orb. Hanging from an overarching tree, a silicone snail clings to the surface of a repurposed disposable video-brochure screen. The screen loops footage of the Grove Snail. Their charismatic yellow shells emphasise its spiral form, the spiral as the source of the single pathed labyrinth. The flickering light of life emanates through the silicone snail. Its animation is a fusion of pixel and diffusion, any gleam of motion deadens with a faulty battery.

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