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DUST
Airspace Gallery/ Marrickville
Sculptural forms—punctured, veiled, and visceral—echo the language of desire, intimacy, and surveillance. This work emerges from personal experiences of queer isolation and the quiet negotiations of safety, expression, and visibility. Growing up, the body often felt like a site of contradiction—watched, policed, and misunderstood. These sculptures and scents carry those tensions: the longing to be seen without being exposed, to be held without fear. Stark and sensory-driven, the installation unravels these complexities through olfactive and sculptural elements. Set against a backdrop of imagined collapse, it mirrors real anxieties—social, political, and internal. Through smell and space, the work invites viewers into a world where the personal becomes political, and survival becomes an intimate act of resistance. These forms speak to how queerness adapts and endures—always shifting, always carving out space for tenderness, even in the ruins.
1. “Pleasure Portal”
Aluminium/ Leather/Plywood/Screws/Scent
Ethyl Trans-4-Decenoate/Oakwood Co2/Z11 Mp/Labdanum/Costus/Guaiacol/Rose Maroc/
Davana
“Sealed in Velvet Dust”
2. “Fauxmance”
Inkjet print/ Scent Ampoule/Pubic Hair/Plastic
12.5cm x 17.5cm
Rum/Davana/Leather/Cocoa Co2/Oakwood/Civet/Costus/Tonquitone
“Deliciously Divine”
3. “Pillar of collapse”
Epoxy Resin/Glass Bottle/Stainless Steel Jewellery posts/Scent
Extrait de Parfum 15 ml
Edition of One
Rubber/Phenylethyl Mercaptan/Smoke/Gardenia/Olibanum Tincture/Olibanum Absolute/Elemi/
Myrrh
Dimensions Variable
“Chaos”
4. “Folly”
Steel Pipe/Glass Cylinder/Fog
Dimensions Variable
“Ejaculation of Overwhelm”
5. “X”
Cotton/Aluminium/Plywood/Nails/Scent/Wax
Aldron/Cumin Tincture/Tonquitone/B.O
30.5 X 30.5cm
“CAUTION”
6. “Jock Itch”
Epoxy Resin/ Stainless steel Jewellery posts/Aluminium/Screws/Scent
Habanolide/Filbertone/Metal Notes/Red Pepper/Milk Notes/Green Pepper/Nutty Pyrazine/
Narcisse Oxyacetate/Saffron Attar
Dimensions Variable
“Hot nuts”
7. “Bounce”
Makeup Sponge/Stainless Steel/Scent
Iris/Heliotrope/Vetimoss/Potato/Powder Accord/Dust/Ethyl Trans-4-Decenoate/Poudre La Mache
Tincture/Jasmine Rice Tincture
Dimension Variable
“Powdered,Polished,Rebound”
8. “Primal Blossom”
Steel Post/Recycled Timber/Paint/Aluminium/Scent Strip/Scent
Wool absolute/Green Carnation/Pineapple Accord/Night Blooming Jasmine/Indole/Skatole/Cuir
De Russie
Dimensions Variable
“A poem read at midnight”
9. “Main Stage Mirage, My Religion is Popstar”
Garments Loaned by Luca Stucci / Lucastucci.com
Single channel video
Duration 2:00 on Loop
Recycled Ring Pull/Glass Beaker/Glass Jar/Boston Bottle/Oakwood Chips/Perfumers
Alcohol/Plaster/Cloth Tape/Dumbbell/Scent
Cade/Galbanum/Maple Lactone / Juniper/ Paradisamide/Oakwood Co2/Strata Hops Tincture
Dimensions Variable
10. “On the Shelf tenderly armoured’
“Liquid Gluttony”
Extrait de Parfum 15 ml
Glass bottle/Scent
Yeast Thiazoline/ Cocoa Resinoid/ Oakwood Resinoid/ Tobacco C02/ Popcorn Pyrazine/Whiskey
Essence
“Seduction of excess”
“Keep Calm and GAY”
Extrait de Parfum 15 ml
Edition of One
Glass Bottle/Scent
Prenyl Mercaptan/Vetikolactat /Ethyl Maltol/Strawberry Aldehyde/Blackcurrent Bud/Galbanum/
Cypriol
“Sweat Nuclear Euphoria”
“Splash”
Extrait de Parfum 15 ml
Edition of One
Glass Bottle/Silver Hardware/Scent
Oyster/Red Seaweed Absolute/Cashmeran/Ambroxan/Cetalox/Methyl Linolenate/
“Merperson in dense waters”
“Liquid Dismorpher”
Extrait de Parfum 15 ml
Edition of One
Glass Bottle/Scent
Band-Aid/Tar/Rubber/Cade/2,4 Xylenol/Spirodecane/Synthetic Saffron/Plastic
“Morphs on perception”
“Untitled”
Extrait de Parfum 15 ml
Edition of Two
Epoxy Resin/Glass Bottle
Elemi/Olibanum/Juniper/Piconia/Stemone/Soil/Patchouli/Pine/Fir Needle/Carrot Cake
11. “Field King”
Jockstrap/Steel Spike Studs/ChromeTowel Fixture/Stainless Steel Hardware/Scent
Seudral/ Wool Absolute/ Orris Root/ Iris Pallida/ Butter Co2/ Ebanol/ Nuezate/ Civet/ Musk
Accord
Dimensions Variable
“Ripe Materialism”