Exhibition Date
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Saturday 6 September 2025, 1 > 4PM,
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Commitment to form (scripts) investigates the (artist's) body as a type of art-making tool informed by personal history, experience, spatial memory and cultural conditioning. The project employs the idea of ‘script’ as a framework and explores how movement, actions and choices can become habitual and scripted within the mind-body over time.
The works in this exhibition were created from the proposition that the artist's own body is a site and record that contains real and remembered relationships between it and the physical and psychological spaces, tools and materials of the lived environment. The exhibition looks at how art making could therefore be viewed as an extension and reflection of mind-body habits, as an automated set of instructions (scripts), and how this might inform the articulation and outcome of artworks, including the negotiation of materials and tools.
Commitment to form (scripts) specifically focuses on how these propositions manifest in the relationship between (hand) writing and the body, and in the slippages that occur, both in form and meaning, when writing becomes scribble, drawing, mark-making, gesture and form. Furthermore, the project explores ideas regarding narrative and storytelling structures within pictorial space and exhibition space, in relation to the movement of (viewer) bodies and the generation of meaning.
Centrally, the exhibition seeks to subtly invert and dismantle conventions of communication and understanding via an enmeshed dialogue
between painting, sculpture, drawing, writing and the body, highlighting that the attribution and articulation of meaning in the material is
a slippery space.
Rie Delange’s practice looks to explore, illuminate and
reconfigure connections between collections of material and conceptual phenomena via mixed-media spatial dialogues and installation
works. She seeks to highlight tenuous, ignored or overlooked relationships between things in the world - ideas, experiences, memories,
materials, images, places, histories and culture - and bring to light unseen or new conversations between them.
Her process begins with a specific concept of 'site' that informs the creation of the work. These sites are initially developed as two-dimensional collages, research documents comprised of text, drawings and photographs - that enable her to map and draw out relationships between different phenomena. The site then acts as a working tool, landscape and container to expand and direct the next cycle of embodied research and material development; fieldwork; archival research; and, studio-based research.
Explorations are then synthesized into material components - sculpture, painting, drawing, photography - and activated in spatial dialogues and installation arrangements. These arrangements are grounded in a collagic and non-hierarchical ethos and embrace an unfixed status of both meaning and material. The resulting work can be viewed as an intentional, honed and materialised articulation of the initial site research, that aims to produce opportunities for new awareness and facilitate an embodied and cognitive experience for the viewer.
Rie was awarded a PhD from RMIT School of Art in 2022. Recent exhibitions include The body holds itself at The Wandering Room, June 2025; her PhD examination Unseen Equations (Smoke and Mirrors) at Artery Project Space, February 2022; and The Vessel and the Path at Assembly Point and Brunswick Temporary, 2023. Rie currently teaches Sculpture and Installation Practice in Visual Arts at RMIT University.