TO DESCRIBE AN ACTIVE WORLD
Miguel Aquilizan, Robert Klippel, Isadora Vaughan
3 May – 24 May 2025

STATION | MELBOURNE

Drawing together works from Miguel Aquilizan, Robert Klippel and Isadora Vaughan, To describe an active world examines artistic investigations into material agency and the interconnected multiplicity of the physical world.

Klippel’s abstract, industrial sculptures fuse the organic with the mechanical. His hybrid structures - part insect, part machine, part cathedral - meditate on collapse, regeneration, and the metaphysical tension between nature and industry. Vaughan’s practice extends this dialogue, centring her research into novel ecosystems as sites of contesting values, manifesting spatially across works driven by entropy, fragility and precariousness. Aquilizan works with found objects – natural, industrial and decorative – drawing out embedded histories of use, belief and decay. His assemblages re-inscribe narratives of consumption and disposability with anti-colonial resonances, reanimating detritus and challenging Western tenets of excess.

Through poetic sculptural forms, these artists attempt to understand the dynamism of our entangled lives. Together, they offer distinct yet interconnected perspectives on how materials are shaped by, and contribute to, broader ecological, industrial and cultural systems.

STATION presents Robert Klippel's works in collaboration with the Robert Klippel Estate and Annette Larkin Fine Art.

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Installation Views

Artworks

Miguel Aquilizan
Sentinel Fragments N•1, 2025
reclaimed wood, steel
132.5 × 24.0 × 21.0 cm

Miguel Aquilizan
Sentinel Fragments N•2, 2025
reclaimed wood, steel
128.0 × 25.0 × 20.0 cm

Miguel Aquilizan
Sentinel Fragments N•3, 2025
reclaimed wood, steel
128.0 × 25.0 × 20.0 cm

Miguel Aquilizan
Sentinel Fragments N•4, 2025
reclaimed wood, steel
118.0 × 33.0 × 31.0 cm

Miguel Aquilizan
Sentinel Fragment N•5, 2025
reclaimed wood, steel
125.5 × 26.0 × 31.0 cm

Miguel Aquilizan
Sentinel Fragments N•6, 2025
reclaimed wood, steel
129.0 × 28.0 × 20.0 cm

Miguel Aquilizan
Sentinel Fragments N•7, 2025
reclaimed wood, steel
126.5 × 20.0 × 22.0 cm

Isadora Vaughan
Historically innacurate reasons to be scared when looking towards the future, 2025
found material, epoxy, steel, latex, gauze
111.0 × 62.0 × 80.0 cm

Isadora Vaughan
Adaptive, Repetitious, 2025
steel, fibreglass tape, polyurethane resin, vitus wood
99.0 × 113.0 × 72.0 cm

Isadora Vaughan
Haecceity, 2025
found material, bay laurel, synthetic latex, alligator clips
30.0 × 47.0 × 47.0 cm

Isadora Vaughan
Lixiviation 1, 2025 28.0 x 25.0 cm
ceramic, resin
22.0 × 19.0 cm,

Isadora Vaughan
Creeky, 2025
aluminium, hawthorn, silicone, resin, fishing lure, epoxy, steel, themeda triandra grass, alligator clip, oxalis
38.0 × 52.0 × 31.0 cm

Isadora Vaughan
Atavistic, 2025
ceramic, epoxy, sand, steel
153.0 × 124.0 × 110.0 cm

Isadora Vaughan
Lixiviation 2, 2025
resin
28.0 × 25.0 × 25.0 cm

Robert Klippel
No. 1162, 1980
wood assemblage
78.5 cm

Robert Klippel
No. 454, 1982
wood assemblage

Robert Klippel
No. 965, 1998
wood assemblage

Robert Klippel
No. 964, 1964-2001
steel
28.8 × 24.0 × 10.5 cm

Robert Klippel
No. 757, 1989
wood assemblage
182.0 × 72.5 × 39.5 cm