Emma Boseley Collaborators
Sarah Gilsenan Ghost Impulse 2

Sarah uses everyday items in material-led experimentation to explore structures of storage, preservation, display and abandoned spaces. Visibility, bureaucratic opacity and the flattening of the archive are themes visited variously through processes of ghostly embossings, ‘empty’ vessels and architectural forms. By subverting objects of utility or inventing new records from detritus, she questions notions of usefulness and seeks to reframe the meaning of familiar materials.

In this work, fragments of an Impulse jean are carefully gathered as souvenirs or relics, exploring the tension between preservation and destruction, and what we chose to keep, discard or display.

Gilsenan (born 1978, in Melbourne) has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Victorian College of the Arts, at the University of Melbourne.