Wednesday September 1st at 6 - 8pm
Exhibition runs:
September 1st to 19th
GALLERY 1
Foyer Space
SYSTEMS TO POINTING
Corinna Berndt
The objects I collect and photograph, or use in my installations are fake, kitsch artefacts, I
find at op-shops, like plastic diamonds, christmas decoration and plastic roses. Their tackiness
easily stirs my imagination, and I am interested in creating some kind of logic between objects.
My work is mainly driven by the idea of spreading microcosms and the wish to establish a sort of
pseudo-science between groups of found objects.
Space A
PHYSETER FABLE
Julian Smith
In Physeter Fable; the bloated carcass of a Sperm Whale is a child’s plaything. Dogs must be kept on a leash lest they be decimated by gastric juices. One must learn that laying claim to something is pointless without knowing how to plunder it. Boys may not like being bleached or burnt but their friends find it hilarious. The emergence of a massive dork may offend some viewers. These paintings on paper, by emerging artist Julian Smith, elude as much as they elucidate the narrative details. The result is a skewed story with lessons implied but unclear. It’s a morality tale without a moral.
Project room
RITUAL GARDEN
Noriko Nakamura
Noriko is a Japanese-born artist based in Melbourne. She believes that spirits in animals and inanimate objects are a natural part of ordinary life. This interest in Shinto (and other) primitive religions and her personal experience influences installation works that utilize various media. They include organic materials, domestic objects and DIY items.
GALLERY 2
GOLDEN MOUNTAIN
Renato Colangelo - Mark Connors - David van Royen - Vivian Cooper Smith - Ian Tippett
Golden Mountain is an exhibition by five Melbourne photographers exploring the concept of imagination.
In spite of the complexity of the theme two fundamental questions form the basis of the inquiry.
“What is ‘imagination’ and what part does it, or did it, play in my life?”
The five photographers meet monthly to discuss these questions and develop an exhibition. It is a process of review and critique but also one of bonding and inspiration.
The result is an exhibition that breaks traditional notions of authorship by presenting the resulting images as a single body of work. New meanings are created and the ‘artists intention’ disrupted when hitherto unrelated images are situated side by side and displayed as one.
Representing a novel approach to group exhibitions Golden Mountain will interest and challenge those accustomed to the solitary tradition of art making while encouraging debate on the role imagination plays in our everyday.
GALLERY 3
Fear of a Tech Planet
Anthony Sawrey - Kieran Stewart -Nick Waddell - Ross Taylor
In this exhibition, 5 artists examine how the presence of techno phobia influences and informs their works, from a gleeful embrace of uncertainty to one of cautious optimism or suspicion.
From ancient times to the present day, the emergence of new technologies has produced both anxiety and exhilaration in the cultures affected by it. Such developments can upset our habitual familiarity with society and the environment, making the very ground beneath us appear to melt into air.
Consequently it brings about a broad range of reactions; from a strident rejection of the new to maintain equilibrium, conflicting with the urge to embrace the shiny, mysterious and exciting. Fear of a Tech Planet encapsulates these contradictions.
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