Platform Contemporary Art Space is a unique environment for an art exhibition. It’s perfectly situated in the city’s heart under Flinders Street Station where all the veins connecting Melbourne lead. This is the ultimate central hub buzzing with urban life, and what better to define Melbourne life than an art exhibition.

Tomorrow, Friday 5th November, sees the opening of ‘Lift and Lower’, a new project by Melbourne-based artist, Jessie Bullivant, and curated by Patrice Sharkey as part of Platform’s Emerging Curator mentorship program. Utilising video, drawing, sculpture and installation, Jessie Bullivant’s work is an investigation into notions of nothingness and futility.

‘Lift and Lower’ is a video piece, in which a crane suspends a vessel above a lake. During the video, which runs for about 10 minutes, the vessel is lowered into the water, slowly filled with water, and is then lifted into the air to sit above the horizon as it drains. The action is complete when the vessel, suspended mid air, is empty again.

Jessie’s work challenges our rigid way of defining things into neat and separate dichotomies. Using effort as both the subject and the medium, ‘Lift and Lower’ points out the fluidity of objects and concepts by simultaneously creating something from nothing and nothing from something. The action is futile, yet fulfils a cycle; the lake is both changed yet the same.

The opening is from 6-8pm in the Platform gallery space below Degraves and Flinders Sreet Station. If you can't make it to the opening 'Lift and Lower' will be exhibited until 26th November.