VIEW FROM THE SIXTY-THIRD FLOOR: ARTSPACE

Elizabeth Day, View from the Sixty-Third Floor, 1998, washed couch grass, instant turf and hydroponic system. Installation view, Artspace, Sydney. Photo: Ian Hobbs.

“The carpet works are both on the ground and simultaneously floating. They describe a contemporary subjective condition. One that is never and always at home, in process, in transit, but absent from Australia but here. Here and there. Inside and outside. Both.” Excerpt from Elizabeth Day, The Black, 2012.

TeTexts about this body of work:
Duncan Fairfax, The Texture of Materiality, 2003.
Patrick Crogan, Lost in Space: Elizabeth Day’s View from the Sixty-Third Floor, 1998.

Elizabeth Day, View from the Sixty-Third Floor, 1998, washed couch grass, instant turf and hydroponic system. Detail of installation, Artspace, Sydney. Photo: Ian Hobbs.
Elizabeth Day, View from the Sixty-Third Floor, 1998, washed couch grass, instant turf and hydroponic system. Detail of installation, Artspace, Sydney. Photo: Ian Hobbs.
Elizabeth Day, View from the Sixty-Third Floor, 1998, washed couch grass, instant turf and hydroponic system. Installation view, Artspace, Sydney. Photo: Ian Hobbs.
Elizabeth Day, View from the Sixty-Third Floor, 1998, washed couch grass, instant turf and hydroponic system. Detail of installation, Artspace, Sydney. Photo: Ian Hobbs.
Elizabeth Day, View from the Sixty-Third Floor, 1998, washed couch grass, instant turf and hydroponic system. Detail of installation, Artspace, Sydney. Photo: Ian Hobbs.
Elizabeth Day, View from the Sixty-Third Floor, 1998, washed couch grass, instant turf and hydroponic system. Installation view, Artspace, Sydney. Photo: Ian Hobbs.
Elizabeth Day, View from the Sixty-Third Floor, 1998, washed couch grass, instant turf and hydroponic system. Detail of installation, Artspace, Sydney. Photo: Ian Hobbs.
Elizabeth Day, View from the Sixty-Third Floor, 1998, washed couch grass, instant turf and hydroponic system. Detail of installation, Artspace, Sydney. Photo: Ian Hobbs.