“Attending To”
Aarti Jadu and Claire de Carteret
20 Feb → 23 Feb 2025
Melbourne Art Fair

Attending To is a collaborative work by sound artist Aarti Jadu and ceramicist Claire de Carteret exploring the interplay between sound and ceramics.

Over six months, the artists spent their residency 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.

A selection of works are available in our Online Shop until 29 March.

Attending To unfolds across the West Space PROJECT ROOM at the Melbourne Art Fair and our gallery as part of The place we do not know is the place we are looking for. PROJECT ROOMS are invited opportunities to present experimental, non-commercial practice within the context of a major international event.

Program

A Field (of) Recording, Tues 18 Feb, 2.30 → 4pm

In a discussion held at West Space, Aarti Jadu & Claire de Carteret introduce their emerging process of collaboration and their approaches to field recordings in relation to land, memory, and materiality.