Field Notes • 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑢𝑚

feat. Sarah Ujmaia

I’ve been thinking a lot about context lately, about place...

…𝑎𝑚 𝐼 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑦𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓?

Marmoreum by Sarah Ujmaia had a powerful effect on me, one that can't be experienced through pictures.

Stepping into its hazy white space, I really felt the way it creates its own context.

It’s a space made welcoming by its sensory experience: the chalky uneven tiles, some rough, some smooth, that all shift under your weight a little as you walk, making these playful and satisfying 𝑐𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑘-𝑐𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑘𝑠 in response.

(It taps into something childish, from the past.)

The room is a sketch, it gives you something, but only vaguely; enough that you fill out the rest in your imagination. It hints at other places; town squares and cobblestone streets, somewhere far away, but also here.

It's a nowhere space.

Rough and smooth, handmade and earthy, conceptual and heavenly.

A space for the dislocated, for those of us who are not anywhere.

You step in, you make it real.

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Go further:

https://gertrude.org.au/exhibition/sarah-ujmaia-marmoreum