VerghisArt

VerghisArt is an alternative platform that offers a licence for experimentation to artists and ideas, providing support for the realisation of multi-disciplinary projects. As a co-founder of Incubator, Verghis was instrumental in enabling the development of rAndom International’s celebrated installation ‘Rain Room’ (2012) which has since been presented at the Barbican, London, MoMA, New York, and LACMA, Los Angeles.

VerghisArt is currently focussing on internationalising mid-career and emerging artists primarily from the Asia Pacific region. The platform’s latest presentation ‘Ex Situ’, was an exhibition by British/Australian artist Caroline Rothwell in which the artist assembled an imaginary botanical archive. Taking the form of new wall-mounted and freestanding sculptures, Rothwell’s archive drew on the materials and instruments of 19th-century botany, mediated by the technological revolution of the 20th century - offering a visual register of humanity’s impact on the natural world today.

‘Ex Situ’ has kindly been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.