Inversion
The Viaduct Project, Leichhardt
Municipal Council, 1995.
An air force high-altitude flying suit was cut open and Velcro-ed
to the vaulted arch of a railway viaduct. Flapping and ballooning
in the wind, it was both a denial of gravity and a tenacious
avowal of our physical attachment to the earth.
This installation used the arch of a disused
railway viaduct in central Sydney. As a counterpoint to existing
graffiti on adjoining arches, Sims transcribed chalk drawings
of constellations taken from astronomical charts of the northern
hemisphere onto the brick surfaces . The work made reference
to the symbology of the heavens from Greek myth to space exploration.
9 artists contributed work to this exhibition, each occupying
consecutive arches of the viaduct.
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