Working with cast concrete, reclaimed stone, foam offcuts, fallen timber, and the remnants of consumer audio technology, these pieces challenge the visual expectations of sound equipment. Speakers are assembled from foam, towels, logs, boxboard and scrap metal—improvised structures that echo histories of use, decay, and reassembly.
Embracing raw and collagic methodologies, the series invites a slower listening and a more tactile, precarious relationship to technology while antagonising cliches of “black box” hifi design.
In these works, material dictates form. The sonic and sculptural outcomes are inseparable from the stuff of their making. 3 Channel Speakers bolted into a foam carcass, A Bluetooth amp embedded in a stone encasing. A subwoofer buried in a cypress log. A tweeter horn cast into a draped cloth soaked in concrete. Enclosures stages a brutal collision of unexpected materials with sound technology, unafraid to pose the naive question, “can these materials speak?”
Documentation by Claudia Saballa-Hobbs
Dylan Marelić is a Melbourne-based artist working across sound, video, sculpture, electronics and installation. He holds an MFA from RMIT (2023). Recent exhibitions include solo shows at BLINDSIDE and Hair Ari (2024), and group shows at BLINDSIDE and CAVES (2024), exploring materiality and public interaction through interdisciplinary practice.
Charlie White is a Melbourne-based artist and designer whose work transforms everyday materials into somber, gothic forms. With backgrounds in Fine Art, Philosophy, and Architecture, his practice blurs boundaries between art and utility. Recent shows include Melbourne Now (NGV, 2024) and solo exhibitions Warmer & Opus Vincula at Backwods Gallery.