“Attending To”
Aarti Jadu and Claire de Carteret
20 Feb → 23 Feb 2025
Melbourne Art Fair
West Space presents Attending To, a new work by West Space Studio artists Aarti Jadu and Claire de Carteret exploring the interplay between sound and ceramics.
From a background of group devotional singing and folk tradition, Aarti Jadu seeks to integrate participatory work into contemporary composition. Claire de Carteret is a ceramicist exploring clay chemistry, technologies, and resonating sculptural form.
The artists have using their residence in the West Space Studio to find resonance between unexplored materials in their individual practices. Attending To is the beginning of a series of collaborative experiments emerging from a shared interest in the way listening, rather than hearing, can cultivate intimacy, subjective interpretation and reflection.
For Between You and I, a central work in the project, Aarti and Claire sourced basalt—using discarded cutting sludge from Bluestone Victorian Quarries—kneading it into clay for the sculpture to take shape before creating sound that resonates with, and within, the forms.
The artists invite bodily engagement with the work, as they contemplate our relationship with time, both in the present moment, and within a much larger sense of deep time, geological and cosmic. You are invited to lay on the foam, to rest your head on the sculptural body, and listen.
Shop a selection here. 100% of sales go back to the artist, supporting the sustainability of her practice.
PROJECT ROOMS are invited opportunities to present experimental, non-commercial practice within the context of a major international event, and provide artists with a paid opportunity.
Attending To unfolds across Melbourne Art Fair and our main space in Collingwood Yards as part of The place we do not know is the place we are looking for.
Program
A Field (of) Recording, Tues 18 Feb, 2.30 → 4pm @ West Space
Aarti Jadu & Claire de Carteret on their emerging collaboration and approaches to field recordings in relation to land, memory, and materiality.
Aarti Jadu is a sound artist in Naarm/Melbourne whose practice seeks to integrate group and public participatory work into contemporary composition and public programming. A recent project with Khyaal Vocal Ensemble involved a public sound installation exploring imaginings stemming from intuitive expression of the naked voice.
Claire de Carteret is a ceramicist in Naarm/Melbourne interested in clay chemistry, technologies and listening. Her recent project becoming better friends with the eels, investigated acoustic resonance through clay bodies and sculptural form, presenting nine resonating ceramic sculptures.
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“The place we do not know is the place we are looking for”
Priyanka Chhabra, Fileona Endoxa Dkhar, Merve Ertufan & Mochu, Uzma Falak, Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker, Aarti Jadu & Claire de Carteret, Rahee Punyashloka, Hayden Ryan, Thomas Smith, Aarti Sunder, Aasma Tulika, Laura McLean and Suvani Suri
1 Feb → 29 Mar 2025
