Timeline is Carla Liesch’s second site responsive work for the premises of 2/39 Abercrombie Street since joining the MOP Projects committee. This follow Liesch’s previous installation work Landscape Painting (2012), which saw the newly renovated entry to the space engulfed in plants, soil and turf to create a passage-way into the gallery.

As with Landscape Painting, Liesch’s Timeline is conceived of as a result of a close engagement with the space. However, where the first work filled the space with matter, Liesch has now slowly and carefully enacted a process of removal. Through this performative work, Liesch’s history becomes further entwined and layered with the space itself. This installation acts as a record of an unseen performance in which Liesch has sanded to remove layers of paint along the wall running the length of the gallery, revealing traces of past exhibitions. The revealed screw holes, star plugs, coloured paint, putty and cuts recalls previous incarnations of the gallery space, tracing back to a history of the space even prior to MOP Projects and Galerie pompom. 

Hour glass V is a sculptural realisation of the same process. Using the subject of the plinth Hour Glass V presents the process of its own creation. This corporeal object has been transformed into sculptural painting with the repeated layering of coloured paint. Finally sanded back to reveal multiple layers of paint; in doing so the work reveals the time taken in its own making. The glitter within reflects and shines in response to the bodies movement enacted around it.

Photos: Docqment