Artist Talk: Hold the world to its word with Sandra Selig & Spence Messih

Join artists Sandra Selig and Spence Messih in a conversation in Hold the world to its word, hosted by exhibition curator, Michael Moran. The artists will discuss their unique approaches to space, materiality, and the transformative potential of art. Selig and Messih will share insights into their practices and reflect on how art holds profound meaning and purpose within today’s world.

Free event, all welcome

Artist Biography

Spence Messih is an artist living and working on Bidjigal and Gadigal land. Through sculpture and text their practice speaks broadly to sites of pressure, materiality, and language and more specifically about these things in relation to their own experience. Messih draws on material tactics of abstraction such as repetition, transformation and cuts/breaks as a way to claim presence within absence and self-recognition within misrecognition.

Sandra Selig works with a range of media — from sound and light works, and small-scale wall pieces; to works on paper and site-specific installations. Her practice, has often explored the discrepancy between seeing and what is seen, or that which can be loosely described as the ‘poetics’ of science.