Josephine Jakobi

14.01.23 - 09.04.23

Observatorium is a solo exhibition bringing together works from the attentive and intricate practice of Josephine Jakobi. Based in far Bungalook, at the edge of the Colquhoun Forest near Lakes Entrance, Jakobi creates work that emerges from an immersive and sustained relationship with place, rooting her practice in close ecological observation and poetic engagement with the living systems of her local environment.

Positioned between art and science, Jakobi works across drawing, textiles, sculpture and installation to explore life cycles, material rhythms and fragile interconnections of the natural world. Her process is one of attunement: gathering, observing, recording. Through this she traces the transformations of organic matter, land and time.

Her work is personal yet universally resonant, speaking to broader concerns around environmental care and interspecies coexistence. The work in Observatorium functions like ecological field notes, whether through delicate renderings of flora, the integration of found natural materials or growing plant forms.

Observatorium creates a space to consider our own roles in the ecosystem we inhabit and shift our perspective from dominance to reciprocity, detachment to intimacy with the landscape – just as we can observe in Jakobi’s artistic practice.

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The public programme for this exhibition included an experimental sound performance by Dylan Martorell, where various species of flora were translated into a score and performed by the artist in the gallery space. 

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Curated by Gabriella Duffy.