Bronte Cormican-Jones
About
To view oneself in the mirror is a personal act imbued with social meaning. The presence of reflective surfaces in public and private spaces has begun to psychologically erase any sense of self that is not tethered to the visual. Yet our search for the self in the mirrored surface will never be fruitful.
Within The Body Reflects a Space, the surfaces of mirrored and glass sculptures been altered so that they become noticeable objects. Each element acts at once as both a guide and a roadblock, a spectacle which locates and disorientates, complicating one’s experience of the gallery and disrupting habitual ways of seeing. They operate together to heighten a participant’s awareness of their body in space. Mirrored boxes guide viewers through a passageway which doubles and triples their body. A parabolic mirror distorts the self, throwing it through optics of magnification and inversion. Dots on panes of glass are used to draw one’s attention to the gallery, and their space within it and play with the reflective and transparent material nature of glass.
The Body Reflects a Space is an artwork about moving and pausing that offers an opportunity for shifting perspectives. It warns viewers of limitations with experiencing the world through sight and praises an embodied understanding of space. It encourages contemplation through movement and highlights how everything changes when we move position.
Bio
Bronte Cormican-Jones is an emerging artist living and working on Garrigal and Darramuragal land. Interested in the architectural materials of glass, timber and steel, Cormican-Jones investigates the ways they behave in the gallery space. With a foundational interest in how we interact with the infrastructure of the world around us, Cormican-Jones understands glass as a transparent membrane that frames perception and our interaction with space. Drawn to how glass and mirrors hold and reflect light, Cormican-Jones’ interrupts habitual interactions with reflection.