Entangled Matter

Entangled Matter is an evolving installation work that highlights our connections with everything and everyone and the fragility of these links in the age of the Anthropocene, an era defined by human impact and environmental crisis.

Susan Sontag spoke of photographers as “collectors’ and Grounds methodically collects images, representing the internal and external aspects of her existence. She then carefully weaves these documentations into rhizomatic wire spheres.

Through the site-specific hanging of these sculptures, she creates cosmic and atomic, rhizomatic landscapes of her world. Each time it is exhibited, the work grows, every hanging, the work is different, emphasising the post structuralist ideas of fluidity and multiplicity. The opacity of the sculptures means they overlap and separate as viewers walk around them, allowing the viewers to become active participants in the work, being seen in and through the spheres, entangled within the network. 

Drawing from Donna Haraway’s notion of ‘situated knowledges,’ Grounds emphasizes that understanding our interconnectedness demands acknowledging our own partial perspectives. How we each experience this interconnectedness, be it with humans, non-human life, or the environment, is grounded in our own bodily and social experiences. No single perspective captures the whole picture, no single person can tell the whole story. Instead, each of us carries unique, embodied insights shaped by our specific circumstances, histories, and positions. To emphasis this personal perspective, in each column, Grounds has a sphere representing herself.

The work invites viewers to reflect on what spheres would make up their own lives and the larger socio-political and ecological systems that influence these valuations. It poses critical questions around politics, society, and nature, encouraging a deeper, more embodied critic of our place within life on Earth.