cool cool cool is a series of works currently underway for presentation in 2021. Two works from the series Coal and Ice and Cascade were presented as a part of group show Photomechanical at Verge Gallery, Sydney in February 2019. The series centers around that idea that as the visual manifestation of physics, the study of light, space and time, photography, or expanded photography, is uniquely positioned to be the medium to help us visualise and understand climate change.
Breaking down the fundamental mechanics of photography, light source - subject - image, as an installation, Wimberley makes cognitively understood and physically felt but invisible heat - visible in real time with Cascade.
In this artwork, the vortices and currents from the heat created by the flame in the candle are activated by the movement of bodies of the audience as they disrupt the air patterns, walking around, breathing and manually manipulating the stream of heat from the flame, showing the invisible effect that humans have on the world around that for the most part, remains invisible to us. Cascade transgresses photography to become physics as installation and performance.
Cascade, 2020, light installation, black painted steel, light, candle.
Using more refined version of the obscura installation to manipulate light in order to visualise Co2, this two channel video work, Coal and Ice addresses the Climate Crisis by drawing a line directly between the burning of coal and the melting of glaciers and arctic ice.
Sourcing Glacial Ice from Icelandic Glaciers while on residency with Studio Olafur Eliasson in Berlin, and Black Coal from a mine in Queensland, Wimberley has recorded two beautiful, inverted videos, one showing Co2 falling slowly and beautifully from a chunk of glacial ice as it melts, the other showing the heat rising furiously as a lump of coal burns. Coal and Ice visualises and brings together the abstract, hyper object concept of Climate Change and its consequences.
Coal and Ice, 2020, Two channel HD video, 18:31 min.