The Vessel and the Path
Brunswick Temporary
265 Lygon Street, Brunswick
July 8th - 29th 2023
Brunswick Temporary
265 Lygon Street, Brunswick
July 8th - 29th 2023
Installation Images
Rie Delange and Jordan Wood
The Vessel and the Path
Drawing from the physical and psychological spaces of home interiors and neighbourhood places The
Vessel and the Path is an ongoing project that investigates intersecting encounters between the artists
bodies and their surroundings. This ongoing project develops as a collaborative conversation between
Rie Delange and Jordan Wood expanding their shared processual and research ideas. The Vessel and
the Path articulates an ongoing psychogeographic inquiry into junctions and schisms between
architectural features, memories and bodily experiences.
Jordan Wood's work traverses the spaces between histories and fictions, artefacts and the discarded,
what we choose to conceal and decide to expose. Using ceramics, collage, sculpture and installation,
she uses cultural collateral to distort contemporary hierarchies attached to objects, knowledge and
space. Magazines and museums, retail spaces and universities employ a diverse range of mechanisms
to present outputs of ideas and objects, ready for the play. These environments, ‘unnatural’ yet in
caught in cycles of destruction and growth, offer abundant resources to ruminate and reassemble in an
attempt to make new understandings. Jordan completed a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) at the
Victorian College of the Arts in 2007. Recent exhibitions include R & R at MARS Gallery 2022 and
Twofold at Tinning Street Presents in 2019.
Rie Delange’s practice is prompted by the exploration of specific sites, in which she researches
intersections between the temporal histories and material realities contained within them. She is
concerned with articulating intersecting layers of experience, memory and history in her exhibition
outcomes, specifically focusing on the collagic, un-fixed and impermanent status of information,
meaning and material. Unseen experiences and information are uncovered and collected using
methods of archival research and fieldwork. This information is further investigated though studio-
based methods – sculpture, drawing, assemblage and photography – and collated to create mixed-
media improvised installation works that re-present her findings for the viewer to experience. Through
this process, Rie seeks to reveal something previously unacknowledged and unsaid about her subject
matter. Rie holds a PhD in Fine Art from RMIT University in the School of Art. In 2015 she completed Master of
Contemporary Art at VCA/Melbourne University. Recent exhibitions include Shut Up Mountain at c3
Contemporary Art Space and Shut Up Mountain/Topology at the Bundoora Homestead for the 2020
Darebin Art Prize. Her PhD exhibition Unseen Equations (Smoke and Mirrors) was presented at Artery
Project Space, Melbourne in February 2022.