Breathe (2019) install photo: 2020 Spring Exhibition at Lismore Art Space

Breathe (2019)

Plastic Straws

Breathe (2019) is a text-based sculpture made from tens of thousands of plastic drinking straws donated to her to save them from landfill. Gala uses these found objects to remind both herself and the audience to breathe, something we always must do but when living with anxiety, it often goes forgotten. When witnessing the enormity of the task of gluing these straws, there is a sense of a mindful performance and trance that she would have undergone during the construction process, concreting the idea that we must all breathe to get through this.

Exhibited:

Breathe - “2020 Spring Exhibition” at Lismore Art Space, Lismore in October 2020

Breathe II - “Border Art Prize” online at Tweed Regional Gallery, Murwillumbah in May 2020

Breathe II (2019) 430 x 270 x 200 mm