Adam Gottlieb and Oliver Henry

26 June - 18 July 2025

Opening Celebration Thursday 26 June, 5-7pm

Open Systems marks the the first iteration of an ongoing collaborative sculptural project by Adam Gottlieb and Oliver Henry.

As a self-replicating sound/light-structure, the work acoustically mimics the ambient by-products of its techno industrial surround, while materially adopting the residual aesthetics of global infrastructure and institutional form.

Hovering between every-thingness - the omnipresent auditory drone of late-modern life - and nothingness - the objects prosaic refusal of utility - it channels the soft coercions of built space through the banal, localised fragments specific to its emplacement.

Its logic is respiratory: it builds through fragmentation, inhales environment, exhales form. Somewhere in the oscillation between interior and exterior - between intake and output - a subject emerges: a subtle persistent tonality of harmonised/formal distortion.

Adam Gottlieb and Oliver Henry are second year Masters students at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University.