Jessie Varde
Environment, viscera (for my conjecture), 2026
Lithographs on nylon/spandex, wood, nails, light projection, sound (stereo channel)
58cm x 47.4cm, 21cm x 26cm, 51.4cm x 22cm
Artist statement
Speculating on a proposed 'tapestry of reality' and its revelation, this work explores both visual and auditory noise as the artefacting of a breakdown of the perceived environment, into its precognitive state of information. Lithographs of seemingly cellulose pattern and organic fractal webbing on nylon/ spandex are stretched over frames, distorting, and divulging their ribs and weaving, while interacting with audio reactive dappled light. The work explores a phenomenologically naive, allegorical imagining of the internal workings of external workings- exposing the information dense noise from which our environment is synthesised.
Photographs: Anna Kucera
Acknowledgement of Country
UNSW School of Art & Design stands on an important place of learning and exchange first occupied by the Bidjigal and Gadigal peoples.
We acknowledge the Bidjigal and Gadigal peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land that our students and staff share, create and operate on. We pay our respects to Elders past and present and extend this respect to all First Nations peoples across Australia. Sovereignty has never been ceded.
