Quality presents ‘sub- super-’ by artist Kohl Tyler, in collaboration with MARS Gallery, Naarm Melbourne. Opening night 6-8pm, Friday 29 November Gallery hours Friday 29 November to Friday 6 December 12-4pm, Saturday, Sunday, Thursday and Friday Open by appointment Address Upstairs, 1b Marine Parade, Abbotsford During multiple documentation sessions within Quality, this exhibition was conceived from a series of conversations about the sculptures ‘glowing’ appearance within the space. The directional and diffused light revealed the sculptures’ ability to both absorb and reflect light, creating an affective and material drama of light and shadow. In response, Tyler has brought to life another series of contemplative sculptures that reflect on the stability of the natural world and the fragile relationships between material ecologies, macro- and microclimates and the human hand. Kohl Tyler is an Aotearoa New Zealand-born artist based in Naarm Melbourne since 2018. Driven by an interest in ecology and navigating one’s enmeshment within it during the contemporary age, Kohl Tyler looks to the natural world, sciences, archives, and phenomena as starting points in her sculptural practice. Ideas of interconnectedness, life’s ephemerality, and notions of ecological grief are then explored and realized predominantly in ceramic sculptures, occasionally in watercolour and through social practice. World-building is often employed, with the work offering a glimpse into a speculative future and its non-human inhabitants or positing what could be the remnants of an imagined time now past. Dialogues that speak to the otherworldly and novel are built while todays’ biosphere and are examined.