About
Remi Siciliano is a visual artist and researcher whose practice is grounded in analogue photography and its intersections with ecology and place. Based in Brookvale, Sydney, and primarily working across Cammeraygal and Gadigal lands, Remi’s work is locally engaged and materially experimental, often exploring site-specificity and site-fidelity.
Over the past several years Remi has investigated how the material and receptive nature of analogue photography can lend itself to collaborative experiments and encounters. Their practice transforms into an active and lively ecology where they do not execute constant technical control over tools and materials but instead play one small role in the creation of works. This practice of intentionally relinquishing agency becomes an invitation to other species, landscape processes and photographic materials to play an active role in image-making.
Remi practices Ecological Image-Making, their methodology for embracing and celebrating all the different organisms, materials and forces at play within their work. Collaborative interactions confuse the divisions between artist, organism, material, subject, object and landscape. Working ecologically dissolves these categories as we know them, and Remi’s work begins to imagine future possibilities of relating and collaborating. One example of this method in practice is Remi’s longstanding speculative collaboration with fungus that grows through their silver gelatin negatives.
Their recent work has involved exploring the potential for invasive weed species on the East Coast of Australia (such as Lantana and Morning Glory) to be extracted and used as alternative photographic developers.
