SYDNEY.- Sullivan+Strumpf is presenting an exhibition of new works by renowned Australian artist Tim Silver, take me home at their Gadigal/Sydney gallery, until Saturday June 28.

Silver’s multimedia practice has long focused on navigating the passing of time, life and death, the past and the present. In this latest body he explores contemporary moments of intimacy and glimpses of private domesticity, casting aspersions on art historical precedents. The exhibition conflates personal and collective consciousness using the body as a vessel.

A multimedia artist working across sculpture, photography and installation, Tim Silver’s practice negotiates the interspace between life and death, the past and present, the real and unreal.

By life casting figures, the artist presents intimate yet haunting corporeal portraits of connection. Working with diverse materials to create his sculptures, Silver emphasises the tension between permanence and impermanence; navigating mediums that shift between the natural, elemental and industrial, including bees wax, bronze and copper infused Forton MG.

Through these fragmented forms, Silver encounters the historical body as contemporary relics, emphasising the notion of the body as a collection of incomplete or partial perceptions. These structures tease unfinished glimpses, slivers of thoughts or images, piecing together our own perspectives with those laid upon us.

A male torso laid bare cast of soap, two arms entwined in bronze, and the legs of a figure rising from cast pigmented concrete. The assemblage of works creates flashes of memory and moments of incompleteness. A new series of busts refers to internal psychological spaces, whilst several casts of hands dwell on both soothing and mundane activities of retrospection.

Silver’s use of relics—both contemporary and historical—suggest that the past is not fixed but constantly remade and reinterpreted by the present. These private moments and their transient nature offer a perspective of how personal and collective histories intersect and inform one another.

An award-winning artist with a career spanning three decades, Silver’s work is held in significant collections including the Art Gallery of New South Wales; National Gallery of Victoria; Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia; Art Gallery of South Australia; Art Gallery of Ballarat; Mint Museum, North Carolina; The University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane; Murray Art Museum, Albury; Wagga Wagga Art Gallery and the Australia Council for the Arts.