For #Five2Watch this week we've selected five artists who have considered materiality as part of their practice: Lucinda Burgess, Rebecca D. Harris, Ana Rosa Hopkins, Ellie Doney and Louise Mackenzie.
Outside In, 2014
Steel chain, cut and polished.
Untitled (two plugs), 2014
Following on from the artworks which explored the biomedical interventions in the obese body and subsequent sagging skin, these works explore the restriction within the body in general.
Think Act Form: materials, origins and affinities (2), 2014
Plataforma Revolver, Lisbon Portugal
15 May - 28 June 2014
Slick of Joy, 2017
Terri's nans sauce
Olive oil or butter
Chopped onions and garlic
Lemon juice
Dried oregano
Salt and pepper
Tinned tomatoes
Lively Material, 2020
Single channel video. 17:35
Lively Material is a video diary of artist Louise Mackenzie's research learning how to genetically modify bacteria to contain cultural, rather than biological information. Working at the Institute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle University (UK), Mackenzie has an idea that she would like to store her thought within the body of a living organism. The film is a video diary of her laboratory practice, following her thought as it is translated from a phrase spoken aloud into a code that becomes represented as physical material: synthetic DNA which is finally stored within the body of the laboratory workhorse, E. coli bacteria.
Published 27 May 2022