MAREE CLARKE IN ‘FACTUM’ AT ELOISE CATO GALLERY

Factum is an exhibition that interrogates the epistemological and biological foundations of thinking systems through the framework of evolutionary science. A fact needs to be proved, contrastingly Factum positions knowledge itself as a dynamic product of evolutionary processes rather than a fixed truth. The exhibition situates cognition, consciousness, and social behaviour within an ancestral continuum, proposing that the human capacity for abstraction, morality and collaboration emerged through adaptive pressures favouring complex forms of cooperation. By tracing the evolution of thought from the cellular to the societal level, Factum examines how systems of reasoning and belief form the way we view life, from the smallest cell to the complex systems of human care. In doing so, it invites reflection on the ways our evolutionary past continues to inform our understanding of evidence, truth, and the construction of knowledge.

Featuring: David Charlie, Chris Charteris, Michaela Gleave, Penny Byrne, Maree Clarke & Jarra Karalinar Steel.

Curated by science author Zoe Kean.

Factum
O5.11.2O25 — 22.11.2O25
Eloise Cato Gallery
Lower Ground, 67 Fitzroy St
Surry Hills NSW 2O1O

Image: Maree Clarke, now you see me: seeing the invisible 3.5, 2O23-24, ceramic based ink cured in toughened glass, 35 x 35 x O.6 cm.