• Micol Assaël, Electrical diagrams, 2008, detail from installation at Cockatoo Island for the 16th Biennale of Sydney 2008, 66 drawings, ink on paper, and audio recording.
  Courtesy the artist and Galleria Zero, Milan. This project was made possible with the generous support of Viglietta Matteo Spa
  Photograph: Jenni Carter.
  

Micol Assaël’s site-specific artworks impose a physical and challenging experience on her audience, sometimes creating extreme or unbearable environments that are difficult to remain in for a long period of time. She engages reflectively with the physical properties of materials in a meditation that is based on her interests in mathematics, physics and philosophy. In a recent installation, Chizhevky Lessons (2007), in which she referred to the research of Russian scientist Alexander Chizhevky, she created a large electromagnetic field in the gallery space; visitors who chose to enter the exhibition space experienced an electrical charge. For the Sydney Biennale, Assaël revisits the old power station on Cockatoo Island and subtly alters this ‘found’ environment by introducing hermetic drawings that contain secrets about old power systems, literally and metaphorically.

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