Fragile Futures Exhibition

Fragile Futures by Gippsland artist Dina Goebel is an ongoing sculptural exhibition exploring the paradox of the Anthropocene: we preserve and admire nature through systems that also contribute to its fragility. Beauty draws viewers in before revealing the material tensions that shape the futures we are collectively creating.

Exhibition Overview

Fragile Futures explores marine form through a material inquiry. The processes used to fabricate the works — including 3D printing — produce residue: failed prints, supports, and excess material.

Rather than hide this by-product, the exhibition brings it into view.

Material is treated as evidence. The systems that enable preservation also generate waste.

Visitors move through a calibrated progression. Ordered, familiar forms invite attention, before that order begins to shift. What first appears contemplative gradually discloses the conditions of its making.

Next exhibition → Yarra Sculpture Gallery, June 2026.

Installation context — Meeniyan, 2026

Curatorial Introduction (60 seconds)

An overview of the exhibition’s conceptual and material framework.

Exhibition Structure

  • Zone 1 — The Lure of Beauty

    Ordered marine forms establish calm and familiarity. Beauty draws viewers in before consequences become visible.

  • Zone 2 — Recognition

    Distance begins to collapse. Absence, residue, and slow looking implicate the viewer in systems of making and consumption.

  • Zone 3 — Uncertain Futures

    The exhibition does not resolve. Futures are held open across a sliding scale — from uncontrolled biological consequence to engineered response.

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Selected Works

  • Lions Mane jellyfish
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Artist Context

Fragile Futures sits within Dina Goebel’s broader sculptural practice, which examines the material consequences of contemporary production. Working with 3D printing processes and repurposed fabrication waste, her work interrogates the systems through which objects are made, consumed, and preserved.

Across independent exhibitions and long-term projects, Goebel’s practice has consistently engaged environmental themes, exploring how aesthetic order can operate as both invitation and critique.

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Fragile Futures is available for exhibition and curatorial collaboration. Installation documentation and specifications are available upon request. For all enquiries, please visit the Contact page.

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