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Joyce Campbell

JOYCE CAMPBELL

Marianas Two Rooms 27 October–25 November 2011 Auckland
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The Mariana Trench is the deepest place in the world’s oceans, the lowest elevation of the surface of the Earth‘s crust. It is the unfathomable, unknowable deep, which marks the limit to where life can exist.

Black space takes us back to primordial stillness, to absence, and to nothingness. In Joyce Campbell’s Marianas series (2003), fragile organisms emerge from the groundlessness of black space as if exhibiting the first signs of life. Each exposure mimics the slow and difficult transition into existence.

I was interested in morphogenesis, complex form emerging out of simple material conditions. I conducted a simple set of experiments using colloidal silver in suspension in order to produce bio-morphic images floating in a black space. The results imitate living forms and point to the miraculous rarity of life.

Joyce Campbell

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About the Artist

Joyce Campbell is based in Los Angeles, California and Auckland, New Zealand and is a lecturer at the University of Auckland Elam School of Fine Arts. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout New Zealand and Internationally, including the Incheon international Women’s Biennalle, Incheon, Korea. In 2006 she was awarded the Antarctic Fellowship with this work being included in an exhibition Antarctica, with Anne Noble and Connie Samaras at Pitzer College, Claremont CA, USA.

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Two Rooms is a contemporary art exhibition venue located in a converted warehouse in Central Auckland, New Zealand. Opened in August 2006, Two Rooms presents a program of residencies and projects by leading International and New Zealand contemporary artists. The building houses two exhibition spaces, the Project Room and the Long Room.

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16 Putiki Street
Newton
Auckland
New Zealand
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Tue - Fri, 11am - 6pm
Sat, 11am - 3pm
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Auckland 16 Putiki Street, Newton
Two Rooms contemporary art gallery in Auckland New Zealand
Two Rooms
16 Putiki Street, Newton, Auckland, New Zealand
+64 9 360 5900
http://www.tworooms.co.nz

Opening hours
Tue - Fri, 11am - 6pm
Sat, 11am - 3pm
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