GHOST LINE (2019)
Fog generators | 900 x 600 x 300cm | Carriageworks, Sydney | The National: New Australian Art 2019 | Photo: the artist

During Carriageworks' former incarnation as the Eveleigh Railway Workshops, locomotive steam would have been an everyday sight. Tom Mùller responds directly to this history with Ghost Line (2019), a site-seocific installation using fog as sculptural matter to animate the Carriageworks precinct with a spectral trace of its past life. Activated twice daily during the course of The National 2019, the work is a temporal and poetic haunting of the past by suspending mist momentarily in time and space. At once a faked natural phenomena and theatrical staging, Ghost Line prompts remembrance and imagination through a fleeting, and possibly bewildering, lapse of vision.

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This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.
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