Remi Siciliano

Bat Creek is a speculative site, emanating out of Burnt Bridge Creek in Balgowlah on Sydney’s Northern Beaches. The liminal creek site and thoroughfare is home to a colony of Grey Headed Flying Foxes. Having grown up one block away from the site, I have returned to make work there for several years, constantly inspired by its shifting seasonal landscape and the creatures that inhabit it. I am interested in local practice as a productive space, where intimate encounters with place lead to greater care and appreciation for environments.

My longstanding collaboration with fungus growing through photographic materials alongside recent darkroom experiments have facilitated new ways for the site to be visualised and transformed. Organisms meet in this landscape for the first time in both physical and intangible ways, carving out new ecological entanglements and possibilities. Native and introduced species become entwined in thriving, luscious density as photographic materials bear witness to these encounters. Large scale prints create an immersive experience of the speculative site and mounted lumen prints made from soil samples reveal the creativity of and expression of analogue photographic materials. My practice transforms into an active and lively ecology where I do not execute constant technical control over my tools and materials but instead play one small role in the creation of works.

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Remi Siciliano is a photomedia artist exploring the potential to collaborate with other organisms and ecologies to make images. Siciliano investigates how the material and receptive nature of analogue photography can lend itself to collaborative experiments and encounters. By intentionally relinquishing agency and technical control, Siciliano’s practice becomes an invitation to other species and landscape processes to play an active role in image-making.

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