Lisa Sammut is a Sydney-based emerging artist. Her practice focuses around cosmic time and the intimacy and infinity of space. For the time being is a mixed media installation consisting of different types of timber, collage, paint, wire, rocks, clockwork mechanisms and more. Sammut has laid out her work in reference to the solar system, resembling constellations. Through this she attempts to create the imaginary time of possible worlds.
Interwoven throughout this piece are elements of time and the cosmic. Sammut has created shapes to resemble planets and constellations and arranged them in a specific way. These shapes are either made from timber rings, geological remnants or made to resemble these with found images. By using these Sammut attempts to gain a tangible sense of the infinite universe and has laid out the work to embody a sense of never ending space.
By using tree rings and geological remnants Sammut has expressed notions of passing time. She has also incorporated metronomes and pendulums within the work to enhance this theme of time. Time is a popular theme in contemporary right at the moment and For the time being expresses time in a different way. It's a beautiful installation that could be expanded even further. The layout of this work wraps around the corner of the gallery. I can easily picture this piece being larger and along one big wall, which I understand is difficult to do in this particular gallery space.
"For the time being", Lisa Sammut, 2015-2016.
"For the time being", Lisa Sammut, 2015-2016.
"For the time being", Lisa Sammut, 2015-2016.
Personally I really like this work. It is different to other art works I have seen recently. I enjoy seeing the theme of time within art and I feel like this installation expresses a new relationship with time.
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