Louisa Bufardeci
Cold Storage (2001)
1500 boxes each 700 x 400 x 400mm, marker
Export Distribution
2023
holding several threads at once, figuring a future together
2023
figuring
2022
Looking out and across
2021
Looking in to the land attached
2021
Sweeping one and the other away
2019
The calls
2017
The sea between A and I
2015
I know I don't know
2014
In a very short space of time
2012
String Theories
2012
Here a chandelier
2012
Flags for the fourth dimension
2011
Blend
2010
Yes and No
2009
Some Material Flags
2008
Recent Plans
2008
Every second is like forever...
2007
13 conversations, all one minute long
2006
Anti-War Speeches
2006
Starter Pistols
2005-6
Landscapes
2005
Team Joy
2004
Governing Values
2004
The Mercer Project
2004
A walk around the periphery of Malviya Nagar
2004
Skin Quartet
2003
Ground Plan
2003
Languages
2003
Export Distribution
2003
Essay topic
2002
The unbearable weight of ordinary things
2002
Cold Storage
2001
Ethnicities to Nations
2001
A few facts I think you ought to know...
2001
ColourPhonics
2001
Tax Payer's Money
2000-2
Counterplay
2000
Fugacità
2000
The Art of Good Reasoning
2000
Specifics of Location
2000
World Listing
2000
Another rounding of facts
1999
A rounding of facts
1999
Spector
1999
"The comforting illusion"
1999
Breathe in, breathe out
1998-9
Cold Storage was developed in response to the Australian Government's recent hard line tactics towards the people seeking asylum in this country. For several years now, people reaching our shores in a desperate attempt to flee persecution and poverty in their own country, have been incarcerated - sometimes for years on end.

This piece turned the gallery space into a pseudo warehouse. Over 1500 large cardboard boxes are stacked floor to ceiling in a tight maze-like fashion. Each box is labelled in handwriting with the name of a possible asylum seeker. The name is iconic of the idea of the person it is assumed to represent and the hand script a reminder that the vitriolic law of detention reflects an action inflicted by humans on humans.