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Last days to see Architectonics 22: Radiant Notation (A Performative Drawing) by Irene Barberis: Architectonics 20: Radi...
02/10/2026

Last days to see Architectonics 22: Radiant Notation (A Performative Drawing) by Irene Barberis:

Architectonics 20: Radiant Notation proposes an original system of visual notation in which the black grid functions as both architectural framework and choreographic score. In dialogue with the spatial pathways of Feuillet notation (c-1700), the measured intervals of musical composition and Sol LeWitt’s instruction-based systems, these works establish potential conditions through which movement is imagined, organised and reconfigured. A continuum. Diagonals become vectors of direction, intervals become measures of relation, and empty spaces become sites of pause, anticipation and choice. In one work, the six-pointed star acts as a spatial compass, orientating movement through six directional axes. The system remains constant while each sequence remains open to variation. As in music and dance, improvisation occurs within structure. The black grid ceases to be a fixed geometry and becomes a notation for possibility, perception and continual transformation. (performative drawings).

Irene Barberis

01/10/2026

Last days to see Architectonics 22: Radiant Notation (A Performative Drawing) by Irene Barberis:

Architectonics 20: Radiant Notation proposes an original system of visual notation in which the black grid functions as both architectural framework and choreographic score. In dialogue with the spatial pathways of Feuillet notation (c-1700), the measured intervals of musical composition and Sol LeWitt’s instruction-based systems, these works establish potential conditions through which movement is imagined, organised and reconfigured. A continuum. Diagonals become vectors of direction, intervals become measures of relation, and empty spaces become sites of pause, anticipation and choice. In one work, the six-pointed star acts as a spatial compass, orientating movement through six directional axes. The system remains constant while each sequence remains open to variation. As in music and dance, improvisation occurs within structure. The black grid ceases to be a fixed geometry and becomes a notation for possibility, perception and continual transformation. (performative drawings).

Irene Barberis

Continuing in Project Space 4 is Hi Fi:No.2 by Amarie Bergman:I entertain visibility and invisibility via materials and ...
25/09/2026

Continuing in Project Space 4 is Hi Fi:No.2 by Amarie Bergman:

I entertain visibility and invisibility via materials and ideas. Although I make art objects, it is the immaterial sourcing and even a kind of sorcery that are the attraction.”1

“Almost mystical in their effect, nevertheless anchored in the minutiae of the everyday world…”2

“To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is our state of consciousness and the shape of our perceptions.”3

By flipping the standard ‘background’ context within Five Walls Project Space 4 to an integral presence, its interior architecture becomes a spatial accomplice for geometric minimalism. Through hifi: no.2, a deliberate entanglement appears to be logical, yet Amarie Bergman interprets “high fidelity” to this site-specific location as intuitively experimental. Because the site is responded and redefined through simplicity of non-objective work, then some unusual things happen, including a synchronous space-time and a poetic streamlining.

Above all, hi-fi: no.2 honours a unique space with an engagement that accentuates experiential reality.

1 Amarie Bergman, Statement https://www.amariebergman.com/pages/statement
2 Justine Picardy, Chanel (London: Harper Collins 2017) 111. (re: the poetry of Pierre Reverdy)
3 Robert Irwin, https://www.artforum.com/print/197710/robert-irwin-s-recent-work-35954

Images by Jody Haines

Amarie Bergman

Continuing in Project Space 4 is Hi Fi: No.2 by West Australian-based artist Amarie Bergman: 1. hifi: no.2 Installation ...
24/09/2026

Continuing in Project Space 4 is Hi Fi: No.2 by West Australian-based artist Amarie Bergman:

1. hifi: no.2 Installation view
photo by Jody Haines
1.5: Corflute panels, carbon rods, metal attachments and micro-wire 25 x 25 x 70cm 2026

The swivelling suspended oblong approximates the physical interior of Project Space 4 @ Five Walls. The piece also marks the 133rd year since Lawrence Hargrave invented the box kite.

Amarie Bergman

Continuing in Project Space 4 is Hi Fi: No.2 by West Australian-based artist Amarie Bergman: 1. hifi: no.2 Installation ...
16/09/2026

Continuing in Project Space 4 is Hi Fi: No.2 by West Australian-based artist Amarie Bergman:

1. hifi: no.2 Installation view
photo by Jody Haines
1.5: Corflute panels, carbon rods, metal attachments and micro-wire 25 x 25 x 70cm 2026

Amarie Bergman

2. hifi: no.2 Installation view
photo by Jody Haines
(background) 1.5: Corflute panels, carbon rods, metal attachments and micro-wire 25 x 25 x 70cm 2026

3. hifi: no.2 Installation view
photo by Jody Haines
(detail) 3.5: Fabricated acrylic laser-cut open cube and recycled Mylar (from “Just Rooibus” tea packaging) 9 x 9 x 9cm 2026

4. hifi: no.2 Installation view 1
photo by Jody Haines
4.5 Mixed media (powdered brown ochre / clay, acrylic paint, graphite / coloured pencils and vinyl collage) on cradled wood panel; diptych, each 15.5 x 15.5 x 2cm 2026

5. hifi: no.2 Installation view 2
photo by Jody Haines
4.5 Mixed media (powdered brown ochre / clay, acrylic paint, graphite / coloured pencils and vinyl collage) on cradled wood panel; diptych, each 15.5 x 15.5 x 2cm 2026

Opening this Friday in Project Spaces 1 & 2 is Hot Minute by Peter Brook: Hot Minute forms part of an ongoing investigat...
08/09/2026

Opening this Friday in Project Spaces 1 & 2 is Hot Minute by Peter Brook:

Hot Minute forms part of an ongoing investigation into colour as a relational, spatial, and perceptual phenomenon. I am interested in the capacity of colour to generate both the illusion—and at times the sensation—of dimensional space within the limits of the painted surface. I seek to engage colour as an active material that constructs, destabilises, and continually reconfigures compositional space. My practice examines the responsive behaviour of colour in relation to colour: its capacity to unsettle fixed spatial hierarchies and renegotiate perception and experience.

The work is grounded in observations of urban architectural environments, particularly the relationship between the geometric order of exterior façades and the layered complexity of interior space. These spatial encounters are manipulated and abstracted into motifs that provide a compositional framework for investigating the material, temporal and perceptual properties of form and colour.

Hot Minute is an idiom meaning either a brief moment or a very long period of time, referencing a renegotiation of chromatic relationships, with open-ended encounters in which meaning emerges through perceptual ambiguity and space is experienced through the contingent behaviour of colour relationships.

Peter Brook

Opening this Friday in Project Space 3 is Architectonics 22: Radiant Notation (A Performative Drawing) by Irene Barberis...
08/09/2026

Opening this Friday in Project Space 3 is
Architectonics 22: Radiant Notation (A Performative Drawing) by Irene Barberis:

Architectonics 20: Radiant Notation proposes an original system of visual notation in which the black grid functions as both architectural framework and choreographic score. In dialogue with the spatial pathways of Feuillet notation (c-1700), the measured intervals of musical composition and Sol LeWitt’s instruction-based systems, these works establish potential conditions through which movement is imagined, organised and reconfigured. A continuum. Diagonals become vectors of direction, intervals become measures of relation, and empty spaces become sites of pause, anticipation and choice. In one work, the six-pointed star acts as a spatial compass, orientating movement through six directional axes. The system remains constant while each sequence remains open to variation. As in music and dance, improvisation occurs within structure. The black grid ceases to be a fixed geometry and becomes a notation for possibility, perception and continual transformation. (performative drawings).

Irene Barberis

Opening this Friday in Project Space 4 is hi-fi:no.2 by Amarie Bergman: “I entertain visibility and invisibility via mat...
08/09/2026

Opening this Friday in Project Space 4 is hi-fi:no.2 by Amarie Bergman:

“I entertain visibility and invisibility via materials and ideas. Although I make art objects, it is the immaterial sourcing and even a kind of sorcery that are the attraction.”1

“Almost mystical in their effect, nevertheless anchored in the minutae of the everyday world…”2

“To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is our state of consciousness and the shape of our perceptions.”3

By flipping the standard ‘background’ context within Five Walls Project Space 4 to an integral presence, its interior architecture becomes a spatial accomplice for geometric minimalism. Through this intervention, a deliberate entanglement appears to be logical, yet Amarie Bergman interprets “high fidelity” to this site-specific location as intuitively experimental. Because the site is responded to like this, and redefined through simplicity of non-objective work, then some unusual things happen, including a synchronous space-time and a poetic streamlining.

hi-fi: no.2 honours the architecture in this unique space with an engagement that accentuates experiential reality.

1 Amarie Bergman, Statement https://www.amariebergman.com/pages/statement

2 Justine Picardy, Chanel (London: Harper Collins 2017) 111. (re the poetry of Pierre Reverdy

3 Robert Irwin, https://www.artforum.com/print/197710/robert-irwin-s-recent-work-35954

Amarie Bergman

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