Living Room
To stare at a stare
6 August to 19 October 2025
To stare at a stare comprises sculptural situations available for collection. Each work explores the movement of thought as a Living Room, reclaiming domestic space as a site of true occurrences. To collect a work or arrange a virtual or in-person visit, please use the links below.
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To stare at a stare: An Exhibition of Sculptural Situations
Physical space is central to a sculptural situation (sculptuation). Comprised of the space of the room, a sculptuation renders it heterogeneous—separate from the mundane, only to regain the everyday for reality as true occurrences.
Each work is a visual path paved with the intrigue of three-dimensional space. Staring involves personal thought traversing space to reach a surface while the one staring stands still. Physical gullies cut into these artworks acknowledge that transit.
Through these gullies, space regains its enchantment. It is not a void, but a reality entwined with thought. As the stare enters the stairs, the orientation reverses. Rather than look at a picture on the wall, we stare from pictorial space into physical space. It is a little revolution—a Hegelian return to the world.
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Artworks
Limited edition To stare at a stare ‘x’ steps away, 2025
Chairs in the watercolours are lined up to look through the gullies of real space to the other side of the room. The gullies are also equated with watercolour stairs alongside.
To stare at a stare 5 stairs away, 2025
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To stare at a stare 15 stairs away, 2025
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Background reasons, 2024
Stairs in the larger watercolour become stares through real space as one takes steps to connect it to the smaller component.
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A page from the Encyclopaedia of Stares that are Stairs, 2024
Stares through real space are emphasis as one takes steps between panels that become stairs in the panels.
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LIST OF WORKS
- To stare at a stare ‘x’ steps away, 2025
Limited edition of three sculptural situations:
To stare at a stare 5 stairs away, 2025
Watercolour, pencil and wood, cut with physical gullies of space
50 x 50 x 1.8 cm
To stare at a stare 15 stairs away, 2025
Watercolour, pencil and wood, cut with physical gullies of space
50 x 50 x 1.8 cm
To stare at a stare 21 stairs away, 2025
Watercolour, pencil and wood, cut with physical gullies of space
50 x 50 x 1.8 cm - Background reasons, 2024
Watercolour, pencil and wood, cut with physical gullies of space
30 x 30 x 1.8 & 100 x 75 x 1.8 cm - A page from the Encyclopaedia of Stares that are Stairs, 2024
Watercolour, pencil and wood, cut with physical gullies of space
3 components, 35 x 30 x 1.8 cm
Books
Space Practising Tools
by Gail Hastings
with an introduction by Jon Roffe
$49.50
Prices include GST and are in $AUD. Please click and download the Room Sheet for artwork prices.
contact
Make a time to visit the exhibition either virtually (via Google Meet or FaceTime) or in person by ringing the doorbell. During the visit, Gail can discuss the work’s spatial autonomy and its art action within a domestic setting.
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about the artist
Gail Hastings: A Spatial Genealogy
Gail Hastings’ practice is centred on the enchantment of physical space. Her ‘sculptuations’ move beyond a priori categories to enact a Hegelian return to the world, where the movement of thought is discovered in actual space.
Her work is informed by a distinct triad of influences:
- Virginia Woolf’s mapping of the threshold between internal thought and the reality ‘outside the window’.
- Donald Judd’s establishment of space as a primary art concern.
- Ian Burn’s conceptual urgency and visual rigour.
The spatial genealogy of this current exhibition stems from her earliest works.
Based in Melbourne, Hastings’ work is represented in major public collections, including the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Mercedes-Benz (Daimler) Art Collection, Berlin.
A sculptural situation is a Living Room.
