Loved ones don’t die while those who love them live, 2020, Archival cotton rag prints on Alupanel, various sizes, and decomposing organic matter. Installation documentation of group show Companions, 2020, alongside Kath Fries, Audrey Newton, Paris Norton, Chevron Hassett and Di Turner, Pari Ari, Parramatta
In 2015 I visited my grandmother’s grave in Danilovgrad in Montenegro. Scattered across the graveyard were colourful plastic flowers in transparent plastic boxes. The heat of summer had made them sweat, water droplets collecting on the inside of the plastic as if the flowers were tearing up. Underneath the earth the bodies of loved ones were slowly returning to dirt in a way their shrines never would.
Miška Mandić 