29/05/2026
Conductive Light Garden: A Circuit of the Senses
Exhibition dates: May 22 - June 5, 2026.
Featuring, Jessica Ticchio, 'ENDLESS UNREALITY', 2025, Digital animation loop, projection installation, dimensions variable.
Last Friday, Conductive Light Garden transformed our historic former police station into a temporary field of sensory exchange; where light, sound, scent and touch converged to challenge conventional modes of perception. Across the building, audiences were invited to navigate the threshold between the tangible and the imagined, encountering spaces that unfolded not as fixed environments, but as shifting states of experience.
Artist, Jessica Ticchio's 'Endless Unreality' occupied the atrium as both architectural spine and conceptual portal. Extending vertically through the building's central void, the work activated the former civic infrastructure through a sequence of projected passages that connected floor to ceiling, material to immaterial. Drawing upon a constellation of architectural, cultural and speculative references, Ticchio constructed spatial fictions that oscillated between memory and invention, familiarity and estrangement.
Through continual shifts in scale, perspective and form, 'Endless Unreality' destabilised singular readings of place, inviting reflection on belonging, displacement and the fluid construction of identity. The work transformed the atrium into a site of suspension; a liminal zone where past and future, reality and imagination, coexist. In doing so, Ticchio reoriented 281 Clarence Street beyond its institutional history, positioning the building as a contemporary cultural vessel through which new possibilities for gathering, dreaming and becoming could emerge.
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