Sandra Selig
Exploring Giant Molecules
18 February—7 May 2022
Curated by Hamish Sawyer
Developed in partnership with the University of New South Wales. This project was supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.
Exhibition Tour
UNSW Galleries
27 August—20 November 2022
Selig works at the intersection of visual art and experimental music, using humble materials such as thread, paper, light and sound to articulate intangible notions of form, space and time. Rather than a chronological overview, the exhibition responded to Selig’s site-specific and iterative practice.
The exhibition presented six projects that addressed the dominant concerns, materials and forms of Selig’s ongoing bodies of work, including a pendulum salt drawing that transformed throughout the exhibition. Also included was a new thread installation that responded to the gallery’s architecture and spider webs captured on paper—projects that have evolved organically over time and in response to the spaces Selig works and exhibits in.
The exhibition’s title came from a discarded text fragment from an old science book, the source material for her ongoing Cut poems series. Selig’s work with sound and experimental music was also featured in a new site-responsive installation and accompanying live performances by Primitive Motion.
Selig is represented by Milani Gallery, Brisbane and Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney.
Installation view of Sandra Selig: Exploring Giant Molecules at UniSC Art Gallery. Photo: Carl Warner.
Opening event
3pm, Saturday 19 February 2022
Discussion: Arryn Snowball, Sandra Selig and Nathan Shepherdson
10am, Saturday 23 April 2022
Closing event: Performances and launch of Sandra Selig publication
4pm, Saturday 7 May 2022
Publication
Sandra Selig: Exploring Giant Molecules features essays by Hamish Sawyer, Professor Sue Best and Leighton Craig, and an interview with José Da Silva providing important and timely scholarship on Selig’s work alongside images of works across the artists career and documentation of the exhibition.
Sanda Selig Digital Story: The James C Sourris AM Collection
LiveLab, Griffith Film School
Sandra Selig digital story with interview by Hamish Sawyer
James C. Sourris Artist Interview Series 2017-2018
John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland
MMS ID: 99183592219202061