“Becoming material”
Vittoria Di Stefano
2 Oct → 7 Nov 2015
Becoming Material is a performative and open-ended sculptural installation in which material, objects and sound will be generated on-site over several weeks. The gallery space will function as an evolving site for re-editing relationships between objects and materials and the investigation of material processes. This project considers the notion of the immanence of materials and the implication of one thing in another, for example, spirit in matter or movement in stillness and the vitality of becoming as opposed to the stasis of being. Becoming Material's continuous, generative moment will function as a means to realise that the self is intrinsically malleable also - in a perpetual state of becoming.
Vittoria Di Stefano (b. 1971) lives and works in Melbourne. In 2012 she completed a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) in Sculpture, Sound and Spacial Practice at RMIT University. Di Stefano's sculptural practice explores the poetic relationships between materiality and the self, and the psychological implications of the material encounter. She employs processes that are temporal, conjectural and provisional using a materiality that is mutable and sometimes volatile including soap, wax, animal and plant fibre, plaster, concrete and clay.