Delving through history, folklore, fantasy, science fact and fiction, Scrying in Oil Spills explores the role of reflective objects, through scrying (seeing the future in reflective surfaces and objects) and literal and metaphorical reflections. Investigating environmental issues including pollution in waterways, oil spills, renewable energy, burning toxic waste, and the impact of technology on nature, Jessie Turner depicts the way that the natural and the human-made are interwoven.
The exhibition captures this through fabulating the reflection, its possibilities and realities, and the mark it has made on the human psyche, across natural, historical and speculative approaches. Exploring historic knowledges, the origin of the reflection in nature and the basis of the human attraction to them, the artist positions the reflection as a materiality in and of itself.
Curated by Angela Connor, MAPh Senior Curator
‘Keep the fire burning! Blak, loud and proud’
NAIDOC Week 2024 | 7 to 14 July
