Absorption brings the ground beneath us into the foreground, drawing our attention to the living and changing nature of soil. The work constitutes almost 300 tonnes of organic and inorganic material, including sand, silt, clay, phosphates, lime, spent grain, cuttlebone, legumes, coffee and green waste, combined into a new soil mixture or neosoil.

A group of cultivators enact this process of mixing, creating a composite material that visitors are free to take for their own uses, allowing Absorption to continue to grow and be nurtured beyond the Clothing Store.

Developed in collaboration with a team of scientists at the University of Sydney Institute of Agriculture, Absorption transforms the Clothing Store into a site for active processes, collaborations and conversations. Within the world created by Absorption, Raza has invited artists Daniel Boyd, Chun Yin Rainbow Chan, Megan Alice Clune, Dean Cross, Brian Fuata, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Jana Hawkins-Andersen, Khaled Sabsabi and Ivey Wawn to create interventions in the form of installations, performances and experiments.