Yasmin Smith: Elemental Life

Yasmin Smith: Elemental Life is the artist’s most significant solo presentation to date. It features the major wall-based installation Seine River Basin (2019), commissioned by the Centre Pompidou, Paris and acquired for the MCA Collection in 2020. The installation is presented alongside new and recent works linked in their investigations of waterways, river systems and deep geological time. Demonstrating the entanglement of human and environmental histories, Smith’s work invites reflection on human's relationship to the natural world and how human's can engage with it in new ways. 

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 _{Yasmin Smith, Drowned River Valley (detail), 2016–2018, installation view Yasmin Smith: Elemental Life, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, 2025, Wareamah/Cockatoo Island, Sydney Harbour salt glaze and Barangaroo sandstone clay on steel, courtesy the artist and The Commercial, Sydney © the artist, photograph: Hamish McIntosh}