Horizonites
Post Office Projects
Kaurna Country
1 February to March 4, 2023

Exhibition Documentation: Rosina Possingham

It is said that there was once a poem that divided a people. Whilst it was nothing special, although certainly nothing derivative, the verse cleaved a community in two. For some who heard it, the poem instilled a sense of awe or wonderment at the horizon — the scant layer of haze where land and sky merged in the farthest distance. They saw in this woozy line a new land, a plain of potentiality. Their critics, however, decried them for their rejection of the actual plains in favour of a land that was illusory. It is said that this schism continues to reverberate, and is the basis of the distrust those who live in the interior of the continent have for those who occupy the edges.

Horizonites emerges from our interest in the devotion that underpinned this conflict and the way in which time, planetarity and connectivity tangle themselves about the horizon line - that ever-present bisection of space that informs much of our existence. The Horizonites are a fictional faction, brought to life by author Gerald Murnane in The Plains (1982). This novel unfurls amidst the oppressive heat of the inland and the rustle of yellowing brush spreading out across paddocks and landscapes. Murnane’s prose captures the diffuse, shifting and obsessive qualities of the horizon, telling the story of those who seek some way in which to understand, and capture the horizon. This exhibition brings together works submitted by photographers from across the globe, realising an archive from a multiplicity of horizons distributed across time and space. Horizonites is an attempt to manifest the horizon; inviting, inscrutable and ineffable.

The Horizon, After All by Chantelle Mitchell & Jaxon Waterhouse

Horizonites was an exhibition Post Office Projects (Kaurna Country/Port Adelaide, Feb 2023) seeking photographic contributions. This exhibition emerged from our shared research into questions of time, planetarity and connectivity as they relate to the horizon line - that ever-present bisection of space that informs much of our existence. Drawn from Gerald Murnane’s The Plains this exhibition attempts to manifest a particularly terrestrial ‘overview effect’, with attention to that ‘scant layer of haze where land and sky merged in the farthest distance’.

Horizonites Becoming-loaf The worldlessness of the stone

Interstellar Return landslip II landslip I Peak Whale Oil IIPeak Whale Oil I Pine-ing for a Voice Thylacine De-Extinction Limits to Hope/Surplus of Growth Writing&Concepts Shapes on the Horizon Circulating Actuality Abyss Lessons The Edges of the Abyss Volumetrics Reader Petrogeist deluge

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Horizonites
Becoming-loaf
The worldlessness of the stone

Interstellar Return
landslip II
landslip I
Peak Whale Oil II
Peak Whale Oil I
Pine-ing for a Voice
Thylacine De-Extinction
Limits to Hope/Surplus of Growth
Writing&Concepts
Shapes on the Horizon
Circulating Actuality
Abyss Lessons
The Edges of the Abyss
Volumetrics Reader
Petrogeist
deluge