THREE ACTS OF REFUSAL

Harrie Fasher and Kim Fasher

Reclaimed concrete footings, steel, bronze

Presented at Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, 2025, as a part of the exhibition Creative Foundations.

Three Acts of Refusal explores collapse as a form of composition. Each sculpture is built from reclaimed concrete footings, steel beams, and fragments of bronze: materials drawn from the debris of industrial environments. Once symbols of permanence, these remnants now lean, fracture, and resist resolution.

The works evoke buildings after war, or forms struggling to stand. They hover in a state of suspension, between ruin and regeneration, blurring the line between ending and beginning. Speaking to the failure of systems once thought stable - architectural, political, social - they also point to the possibility of renewal. Rather than monuments to permanence, these sculptures operate as propositions: what remains when stability gives way, and what new forms might be made from what has already fallen.

Image credits: Silversalt Photography