Soft Grates

Established in 2022, the Judy Wheeler Commission is a ten-year program made possible through a philanthropic gift to PICA by the Simpson Family. It funds an annual site-specific work by an Australian visual artist that responds physically or conceptually to the architecture and history of the PICA building, embodying PICA’s spirit of risk and experimentation, and celebrating art’s power to connect people and places through curiosity, perspective and storytelling. Jen Berean and James Carey’s Soft Grates is the fourth in the Judy Wheeler Commission series and invites visitors to contemplate how institutions mark time and hold memory through the presence of water. Continuing their collaborative exploration of architecture, infrastructures and embedded systems, the duo aims to reveal the unseen networks that move water through and around PICA’s location in Boorloo (Perth). Their three-part installation will feature a sculptural intervention that sees water slowly drip into vessels over the duration of the year. These vessels draw a conceptual link to the civic infrastructure that enables the movement and management of water across Boorloo and beyond. This durational work encourages au

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