Experiments in Living [Melt]:
Sammy Hawker

Encompassing text, video and negative prints produced in collaboration with the chemical activity of rain, hailstones, seawater and flame, Hawker’s exhibition challenges our culture’s belief in human control of the natural world.

Responding to the diverse meanings of ‘melt’, the artist presents a sequence of works embodying the tumultuous disruptions – personal, environmental, global – of recent months. Reflecting on experiences of vulnerability, anxiety and loss, Hawker proposes that such experiences open up possibilities for new practices of love and care.

Experiments in Living [Melt] presents outcomes from Hawker’s PhotoAccess 2021 Dark Matter residency.

/melt/

• become liquified by heat

• leave or disappear unobtrusively

• dissolve in liquid

• make or become more tender or loving

• change or merge imperceptibly into (another form or state)

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