Dark Matter
TWO PERSON EXHIBITION: Mitch Donaldson + Ali Bezer/ DATES: 24th January - 8th February/ VENUE: The Hold Artspace
Exhibition Statement
Ali Bezer’s practice explores a phenomenology of noise that generates visual meaning from invisible sensations. Her predominant use of metal establishes an intricate interplay of gravity, magnetism, material, and light drawn from in-depth research into the physicality of sound.
Mitchell Donaldson’s practice explores the unmaking of the self in an attempt to comprehend the meaning of death. Interrogating solitude and self-denial as a means to approaching divine truth, he affirms an ambivalent sense of self-induced by loneliness, boredom, anxiety, and spiritual poverty. Bringing these artistic projects together is the hypothesis of Dark Matter, by which astrophysicists infer the existence of invisible matter and energy through its effects on visible matter. For Bezer and Donaldson, this theory is appropriated as a metaphor which catalyzes numerous questions over the value of that which cannot be seen.
Luke Kidd and Kylie Spear, Exhibition Blurb, 2014. 
Gallery 1 Entrance.
"Static #1", 2014. Aluminium foil and bitumen, wall installation, 1 m x 2 m. Gallery 3.
"USO" ( Unidentified Sound Object), 2014. Speaker cone and dust installed floating against wall. Gallery 3.
"Static #1" 2014. Detail.
"Static #1" 2014. Detail.
"Static #1" 2014. Detail.
"Jammed" from the "Radiowaves Relics" series, 2014. Dampcourse in concertina form.
"Jammed" from the "Radiowaves Relics" series, 2014. Main Gallery.
"Jammed" from the "Radiowaves Relics" series, 2014.
"Jammed" from the "Radiowaves Relics" series, 2014.
"Jammed" from the "Radiowaves Relics" series, 2014.
"Jammed" and "Traverse" from "Radiowave Relics" series, 2014. Main Gallery.
"Traverse" from the "Radiowaves Relics "series, 2014. Dampcourse in concertina form. Main Gallery.
"Traverse" from the "Radiowaves Relics "series, 2014. Dampcourse in concertina form. Main Gallery.
"Traverse" from the "Radiowaves Relics "series, 2014. Detail.
"Traverse" from the "Radiowaves Relics "series, 2014. Detail.
"Traverse" from the "Radiowaves Relics "series, 2014. Detail.
"Traverse" from the "Radiowaves Relics "series, 2014.
"Dark Matter #1", 2014. Collage made of layered coloured sandpaper and magnets.
"Dark Matter #2", 2014. Collage made of layered coloured sandpaper and magnets.
"Sonic Solids" 2013-14. Ongoing series of sculptures made from speaker parts, magnets, ferrous powder, wire, cables and cassette tape displayed on floating glass shelves.
"Sonic Solids", 2013-2014. Main Gallery
