Rachel Brennan

How does it feel to sit with uncertainty? You, Super Organism is a multimedia installation exploring the boundaries between bodies and materials.

When life seems flat and stagnant, I have found solace in the sensuous and strange world of composting materials. They remind me that I too am unfixed, always in flux, and never separate from the world around me. Through their shifting and unstable nature, these bioplastic pieces reflect this condition, speaking to interdependence, mortality, and the impossibility of permanence.

In an era defined by overconsumption, post-production, and microplastic contamination, the work embraces amorphous thresholds as uncertain, intimate, and embodied everyday realities. In doing so, it proposes a shift in perception: from viewing matter as dead or disposable to recognising its ongoing capacity to affect and be affected.