Leora Farber
6 - 22 July, 2021
ghosted matter, phantom hurt (and other chimera) by Leora Farber is a digital media exhibition of videos showing fleeting ‘impressions’ of domestic objects made through an experimental combination of biomaterials and microbes. In the videos, the impressions appear and disappear, hovering restlessly in a liminal space of constant becoming. In their initial forms as material matter, they already inhabit an ever-changing state of in-betweenness, slipping in-between life and death; visibility and invisibility; human and other-than-human; actuality and imagination; being and non-being; (semi)living and non-living. This sense of liminality is heightened when the impressions are translated into digital media, which, in itself, foregrounds the transientness of light, time and space.
This panel discussion between Leora Farber, Oron Catts, Kate Hammer, Donna Franklin and Danielle Fusco was in response to Leora's exhibition.