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#44 Jasmine Targett

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EXHIBITED WORK
What the Eyes Do Not See
telescopes, hand blown glass component and mirrored glass lenses
80 x 260 x 160cm
$6,600

ARTIST STATEMENT
“At night when I look through my telescope I often wonder could there be another person with a telescope looking back at me?”  I suffer from what 17th-century English philosopher Francis Bacon called ‘a mystified incomprehension that science alone cannot cure.’  When I think about observation I sense there is a greater connection between object and observer than my eyes can fathom. The Entanglement Paradox has scientifically proven that the observer and subject become molecularly entangled during observation creating an osmotic transference of energy and information. This connection happens instantaneously at a minimum of over 10,000 times faster than the speed of light.  What the eyes do not see aims to explore how observation challenges the way we understand the world, and how thinking about observation changes what we see.

BIOGRAPHY
As a techno-romanticist I work with devices that magnify the natural world. My work offers an expanded gaze into perception, making the void between existence and nature tangible.
Within my practice I reinterpret traditional craft materials and techniques working with new technologies to respond to how contemporary science continues to shift the way we understand nature and existence.
My work is driven conceptually by making visible the unfathomable blind spots in contemporary culture’s visual vernacular. These blind spots surround how climate science, contemporary philosophy and current social, political and economic concerns are communicated visually.
Recently I have been inviting the idea that the art world is based on ‘an economy of belief’ into my arts practice.  A belief that what is communicated visually has the potential to alter the way other systems of knowledge are perceived and understood. This creates a currency based on a conceptual capital that influences how the individual can contribute to the world in a way that is more conscious and meaningful.
What the Eyes Do Not See comes from the body of work Vision Quest. It is an exploration into how we can more meaningfully co-create with the world around us. This has led me to become an advocate in art for social change through the method and philosophy behind craft practices. The practice of craft has allowed me to intimately engage the audience and community surrounding my work, at times creating artwork and installations together that are a response to the challenges we collectively face as a community that echo broader global issues.
I am currently completing the first artist in residence at the Creative Spaces: Carlton Connect Studio based out of LAB-14, a hub for artists and scientists to collaborate on how the City of Melbourne can respond to climate change adaptation. The craft-based research works being produced tackle challenges surrounding reduced rainfall and drought. Focusing on ways to educate and engage the project’s audience, the works will demonstrate how natural water resources and man made catchments can work together to conserve our water resources within one super-ecology.
In the past my work has focused on making-visible landmarks of anthropocentric disaster that cannot be found on any atlas or world map. These new works employ craft methods, techniques and philosophies that aim to help empower my audience to think of creative ways to adapt to pressing issues. While the shape and form of these works are still in progress – the philosophy behind them has directly transcended from the work What the Eyes Do Not See. In conceiving and making this installation by hand I completely shifted my understanding of how craft functions within the broader spectrum of visual arts being produced in Victoria. Craft has the unique ability to start a meaningful dialogue between maker and audience; so that they can co-create and together, challenging and changing the way we see everything.

Targett holds a PhD in Fine Arts from Monash University. Exhibitions include but are not limited to Emerging Contemporaries (2015, Craft ACT, Canberra, ACT); Blind Spot (2014, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, St Kilda, VIC); Crumbling Ecologies (2012, Craft, Melbourne, VIC); Tom Malone Prize Finalist (2014, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA); Bubbling Up, (2011, Dianne Tanzer Gallery Project Space, Fitzroy, VIC).

LOCATION
This work is exhibited as a Finalist in the Victorian Craft Awards at:
fortyfivedownstairs, 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne

For queries about purchasing this work or any other details please email: victoriancraftaward@craft.org.au

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