Here and Now: Gold Coast Triennial 2024 Digital Gallery
Nicholas Tossmann
b.1999 Singapore, lives Gold Coast QLD
Exercising Infinity , 2024
vinyl
Image courtesy of the artist
Artist Statement
Exercising Infinity is a text installation that explores the capacities of imagination by asking the viewer to consider the infinite. The viewer is tasked to imagine an artwork that quickly escapes the possibility of imagination, ending in paradox. Our innate curiosity and ability to endlessly question is an exercise in trying to experience the infinite, as each viewer imagines their own version of the artwork.
About the Artist
Nicholas Tossmann is a Gold Coast based conceptual artist. Nicholas is intrigued by our innate curiosity as humans and our ability to question, irrespective of whether we can find answers. This innately existential curiosity is the primary motivator for his practice.
Nicholas's work utilises text in the forms of installation, sculpture, performance and video and is often made site specifically, considering spaces and architecture to imagine how viewers could physically engage and relate to intangible ideas. He uses text for its ability to give tangibility to intangible ideas and disseminate and expand upon those ideas. His work invites a contemplation of the self in relation to the absurd. By creating introspective thought and conversation around ideas represented in text, we are able to gain an understanding of both ours and others perspective's around how we construct meaning.
