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Horizon

By  Robert Foster 2016
To conclude my time in residence at Roaming Room, I presented Horizon, a new body of works focused on alchemy and the arcane. Responding to the context of the space were a series of interventions which continued my research into the languages and gestures of Esotericism. The objects presented were intended to act as fragments, or clues, that at first may seem incidental, but over time and continued study would allude to these practices often deemed unsubstantiated. I selected and arranged materials to evoke a sense of intrigue and to stimulate investigation into the enigmatic formal, conceptual and symbolic references that inspired the creation of the works. Through the act of collecting and re-presenting objects capable of communicating hidden meanings, I hoped to refer to the transformative potential of the artistic process, as well as form a dialogue around specialised systems of knowledge and the manner in which information is collected, ordered and decoded.
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