OXBLOOD

2024 Installation

Victoria Motika & Julian Micallef

Broken Noses Residency, Back Lane West, Redruth (June 2024)

Exploring processes of break-down, decay and oxidisation through performance, sculpture and projection. Inspired by Redruth’s mining heritage, where iron oxide from local mines caused the river to run red.

[Above] MOVING A HEAVY RUSTY METAL BOX AROUND A RECTANGLE 8 TIMES

[sculpture, performance, polaroid prints]

Looking at the formal arrangements of an object within a contained area. The number of arrangements was controlled by the number of polaroids in a pack (8). Through contact with, and movement of, the object, rust deposits scattered across the floor, leaving silhouette traces of previous positions.

Installation View, Woodlane Windows, Falmouth (2024)