CARLY FISCHER

The Commons Series, 2021 reflects on in-between spaces and times during COVID-19 and how restrictions have shifted awareness towards noticing the smaller details and layers of our local areas. Sourced from wanderings around the construction sites and old industrial zones of Coburg, Melbourne, the sculpture merges and reconstructs forgotten fragments, construction debris, graffiti commentary and old signage into alternate narratives of time and place. Shifting these fragments from disparate accumulations to entangled encounters, the sculpture considers how noticing the smaller details and interactions within our common areas can create political, cultural and environmental awareness.

Carly Fischer is a sculptural and audio installation artist from Melbourne, Australia. Her work explores the smaller details, peripheral zones and hidden histories of places, creating alternate narratives that question broader cultural and colonial perspectives. Engaging with environments through a fragmentary and meandering process of encountered objects, materials, sounds and histories, her sculptural and sonic reconstructions reflect on places as complex and shifting sites of accumulation, interaction, and negotiation.

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