Moore Contemporary presents Jacobus Capone’s Falling from Earth Exhibition. 

In a suite of seven paintings, photography, and a one-off live-streamed durational performance, Jacobus Capone explores the transformational properties that physical landscapes, the sea and stars can have upon an individual’s body and psyche.

The Devotional Paintings (7 Mountains & The Sea) were created through a process of reverence, devotion, and physical endurance. While on residency in Bergen, Norway, Capone would make daily ascents up one of seven mountains surrounding the city, gathering on each trip small samples of earth to be mixed with freshly retrieved seawater and applied as a wash onto canvas. This ritual was repeated over hundreds of iterations to produce final works that, in Capone’s words, act “as a conduit or medium between the sea and mountains to reveal something not seen or felt, but in existence.” The paintings carry gentle traces of the poetic engagement that transpired between artist and environment.

A single photograph, Untitled (body as a constellation), introduces the exhibition, imaginatively and metaphorically linking the image of a monochrome bodily surface with the idea of terrain or akin to a view of a constellation. It serves to bridge the exhibition of paintings with the physicality of the live stream performance tracing a darkness-to-dawn run.

Falling from Earth is presented in association with Perth Festival as part of the 2023 visual arts program.

Date: 4 February to 11 March