Exhibition 42

c3 opens with a new show on Wednesday the 28th of March at 6pm
Show runs from 28th March - 15th April

GALLERY 1

FOYER SPACE

FALLING SUN

MICHAEL GEORGETTI

Michael Georgetti’s artworks oppose painting and sculpture to found, commonplace objects in (dis)order), arrays precarious and desperate. These explore an everyday absurd: humanity's interaction with its mechanical surroundings.
The kinetics of Georgetti’s configurations work in an awkward and often clumsy manner, giving anthropomorphic qualities to mundane objects, proposing analogies of human failure. The mass-produced materials play the slapstick of the painted elements co-existing with the frenzy of the rapidly developing world. 

The emphasis on the divide between sculptural and flat space is often used to create interventions in the way one perceives and inhabits the everyday-world.

SPACE A

ISN'T IT GOOD TO BE LOST IN THE WOOD

ALAN IBELL

Isn’t It Good To Be Lost In The Wood deals with the search for absolutes in an absurd world, forming narratives that explore the dialogue between religion, spirituality and superstition, and the bearing these ideas have in contemporary society.

The solitary figures within the works, related only by their faceless anonymity (and occasional amputation), are situated within sparse, empty settings alluding to a dream space that is beholden only to the realm of human thought. Their ongoing search is met with silence and the hopelessness of their actions is amplified by the harsh emptiness of the surroundings. 

SPACE B

DECAY IS IN THE WIND

LLAWELLA LEWIS

Decay Is In The Wind transforms the rotary clothesline from a typically banal object synonymous with the sparse, Australian backyard to something surreal and monumental. The entire sculpture is constructed with architectural tracing paper and polyester thread using processes of cutting, folding and sewing.

PROJECT ROOM

LIVING THE DREAM

GEORGINA LEE

Covering a wide range of mediums including painting, installation and video, Living the Dream explores the sacrifices we make in order to meet society’s expectations for wealth, lifestyle and success. In drawing references from the white-­‐collar contemporary workplace and negotiating the precarious relationship between success and objectified labour, my work questions the extent by which our aspirations and values have been shaped by social conditioning and driven by social pressure. In a status-­‐anxious modern society where success is predominantly defined by an accumulation of material wealth, do we still find any meaning in achieving fulfilment in our lives through less tangible means?

GALLERY 2

DEADEYE

SABINA MASELLI

Deadeye combines film and video projections, sculptural pieces and sound to submerge the viewer in a cinematic installation. It explores memory through its different manifestations in the physical and the psychical world; dreams, old photographs, myths, superstitions, ceremonies, a strand of hair, traces on a landscape, the scratches etched onto film...memory as a membrane, a cell, a sail. 

GALLERY 3

THE NEGATIVE MIRROR

SARAH BUNTING - LEANNE HERMOSILLA - LAURA SKERLJ

AMELIE HIRSCHAUER - ADELE MACER

The Negative Mirror exhibits the work of five artists whose practice is linked by a shared fascination with alterity and ‘elsewhere’ – other people, other places, other dimensions and beings. This manifests as an expression of oppositions and dualities, in particular human/animal, natural/man-made, canny/uncanny, text/image and fullness/void. Through the mediums of sculpture, painting, digital works and installation, the artists aim to explore, individually and as a group, the point at which these oppositions meet, and the transition from one to the other.