Visiting artist Sylvie Rosenthal

As an artist, I negotiate between the inheritances of coming up through a trade and conceptual methodologies. I work to destabilize my own identity, activating risk while owning the site of production. Like the earliest mapmakers, I am an explorer oscillating between the polarities of process and concept. The works are propositions. I churn my collection of seemingly disparate fields of knowledge such as history of science, furniture/craft, the natural world, queer theory, and ideas of wilderness.  My works come together as an ensemble. The pieces are complete within themselves while connections constellate across them, forming combinations that do not settle into taxonomic classification. 

Sylvie Rosenthal is a visiting artist in the ANU School of Art Furniture workshop.

http://www.sylvierosenthal.com/