Aarhon Silver
'Feeling anxious? ...there that's better' 2025. Acrylic on canvas, print on canvas, sound buttons on canvas/board; Painting: 192 x 178cm; 2 wood panels: 120 x 90cm; Plinth: 20 x 20 x 100cm.
Artist statement
This work is a brief excerpt from my current Honours research, a forensic analysis of loss and belonging, a synthesis in three distinct epochs. It explores themes of mourning, anxiety, self-erasure, the influence of non-human entities and creation of queer environments.
Epoch 1: “Fuck you Aquaman” delves into the concept of cognitive dissonance and the content sourcing process.
Epoch 2: “Entanglement and the End of the world" - the inevitability of change and the futility of the attempt to resist it.
Epoch 3: “What you Hear and Ignore" - Queer Biophany and the sonic event that holds the Universe together.
Photograph: Anna Kucera
Photographs: Anna Kucera
Acknowledgement of Country
°IJʹ School of Art & Design stands on an important place of learning and exchange first occupied by the Bidjigal and Gadigal peoples.
We acknowledge the Bidjigal and Gadigal peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land that our students and staff share, create and operate on. We pay our respects to Elders past and present and extend this respect to all First Nations peoples across Australia. Sovereignty has never been ceded.
