Tris Vonna-Michell at T293

Tris Vonna-Michell exhibition at T293, titled 'Register' is a perfect example of how modern sculpture has allowed artists to seek freedom in materials and 'what counts as sculpture at all', as is discussed in Krauss's 'Sculpture in the Expanded Field'. This exhibition features projected films, distorted photographs, and ambiance sound. Specifically, it is the piece pictured above, titled 'Recording', that I find relates the most. This piece combines photographs and aquatic landscaping into one unit to achieve his idea of fluidity and "open-ended" thinking by the audience into his work. Krauss had discussed in his essay the re-convergence of landscape and architecture into modern sculpture, where once they had been considered incompatible in the same field. (However, he does include that non-western cultures have thought of landscape and sculpture as being one and the same, as is found in Japanese gardening). Besides this, is the implementation of photographs and 'flat work' into the sculpture, where once the inclusion of such material wouldn't be considered. I think the piece does an excellent job of showing the expended field of possibility available to modern sculpture.