Marian Tubbs at STATION | Melbourne
Within the early 2010s, Marian Tubbs was an up-and-coming Sydney artist related to the wave of post-internet artwork, which, on the time, supplied an aesthetic skewed towards the digital. As with every cutting-edge cultural projections, these works now really feel barely dated.
Over the previous decade, Tubbs has grown more and more within the bodily world, turning to sculpture and print whereas persevering with to mine the logic of a every day life contoured by the web. Her newest exhibition, “resort work,” suggests a extra mature mind-set concerning the digital parts intruding on our corporeal surroundings. Throughout the 5 digital prints on luster displayed right here, Tubbs presents websites of leisure eerily void of any human presence. Nobody floats within the inflatable tubes alongside the lazy river (all works 2022). The artist constructs and compacts a plethora of unrelated photographs, to the purpose that viewers could battle to decipher what they’re seeing. In i’ll do all of the work i’ll simply do all of it fallacious, brown stilettos are dwarfed by oversize cleaning soap bubbles, whereas rotting meals, duplicated throughout the image floor, appears to be like like quartz. Two smears of darkish grey is likely to be metallic or maybe a physique of water. Tubbs’s visible mazes are all roadblock and no exit.
Reducing diagonally throughout the gallery is Slipped my thoughts, a metallic sculpture that seems to have been crushed by the identical forces that generated the maelstrom of images within the prints. Produced in situ in roughly one hour, the sculpture indexes linear actual time, making a dialogue with the structure of the sunshine railings whereas grounding the viewer’s physique—implied within the digital prints, albeit by no means represented—in house.
— Amelia Winata
