Concrete Playground

Emily Floyd prefers to keep things real. In fact, inauthentic gestures are so bothersome to her that she’s created three installations, entitled Garden, Our Community Garden, Alternative School and Farmers Market, to represent genuine solutions to the realistic possibilities of food shortage, catastrophic climate change and political despotism. Collectively, Floyd’s installations seek to combat these threats by incorporating manifold types of information. URL codes are inscribed on the artworks alongside naturally occurring patterns. Sculptures take on comfortingly familiar shapes, such as the giant double helix Garden Sculpture, while others fail to ascribe to any such obvious signifier. Floyd’s work is between an antithesis and an answer to modern Australia, in that The Fertile Void holds all the answers while sincerely knowing none of them.

Photo courtesy of Emily Floyd & Anna Schwartz Gallery