YOU WILL DIE

 

Presented as part of the Liminal Variegation Exhibition 

Date: 30 March – 21 April 2024
Location: Old Ambulance Station Nambour/Namba
Detail/Materials: Temporary fence panel, variegated pothos, test tubes (2.4 x 1.8 m)

You Will Die is a site-specific, temporary installation that engages with the gallery environment. Assembled from found objects, the work offers a meditation on mortality. Living pothos vines are manipulated to spell out the words “you will die” across a temporary fencing panel, whose rusted steel surface signals decay and impermanence. Together, the steel and the plants function as physical manifestations of the life cycle – forms in a constant process of transformation.

The large-scale text is positioned to engage the viewer with their own relationship with death, reflecting on the universal experience of existing within a temporal body.

Building on the artist’s previous explorations of psychedelic themes and the loss of her father, the work addresses Harding’s ongoing interest in the natural world, memento mori, universal interconnectedness, and what lies beyond the physical.

As part of the installation, participants were invited to leave their own death feedback.

a cube ply box, sits on top of a white plinth, the box has the words "DEATH FEEDBACK" written on the front in black capital. Also on the white plinth to the left of the ply box is a brown clipboard lying down with white paper and a green pen.
a temporary mesh fence, against a white gallery wall. On the fence is spelled out in pothos vine "you will die"
a cube ply box, sits on top of a white plinth, the box has the words "DEATH FEEDBACK" written on the front in black capital. Also on the white plinth to the left of the ply box is a brown clipboard lying down with white paper and a green pen.
photo taken of part of a 'death feeback' form with three typed questions and handwriting answers in green pen.