The show is:
– a decorative panel substrate offering improved acoustic performance. It also im- proves speech intelligibility, concentration and wellbeing. It is thermal insulating and flame retardant.
– an aluminium lung of normal distribution. It is the lung of card carrying profession- als, each a relic of the expertise age, each embracing a respiratory disruption. * – a blouse button, a fish bone, a match, saliva, nuts, nuts, nuts, a lozenge, a grape. There are more things too. All of them are silent. All of them where they shouldn’t be.
– a person who will deliver food for one year while teaching themselves to draw. They will soon be a tattoo artist or a writer or something else. They have already earned enough to pay rent this month. They sold a rare knife on gumtree.com.au.
The exhibition Silent Aspiration takes the human subject as an actively entangled agent, a body manoeuvring through the service economies and material cultures of Late Stage Capitalism. Following from his recent exhibition TV Insides at Sarah Scout Presents, for Outer Space, Tim Woodward presents new video and sculptural works that further consider the mystification of interiority and the body as a liminal threshold of the consuming self.
Woodward has a fondness for absurd logic and irrational leaps. His gestures extend from the lineages of conceptual art and a faith in the unrestrained potential of imagination.
Tim is a current MFA research candidate at Monash University, Melbourne. He is represented by Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney.
Accompanying text by Debris Facility
Image: Cosmo’s model of the universe with uneasy sleeping, 2016, euphonium, cat bedding, cat, 35 x 24 x 71cm , Installation view, Cosmo’s, Darren Knight Gallery
