“The more we understand the better we can participate in society”. These words, which greet visitors to Kader Attia’s solo show at the MCA, perfectly sum up the overarching themes of the French-Algerian artist’s project.
Like many exhibitions, Telaesthesia began with conversation. “The five artists in this exhibition all shared a studio space for several years until 2012 and we would sit around our kitchen table and talk about what it meant to be painting in a post-digital and post-internet world,” says curator and artist Tony Lloyd.
This exhibition takes its starting point as Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s Ecstasy of Saint Teresa (1652), and its ability to convey the Baroque sensibility in art.
A nuanced reflection on post-war Australian culture and hefty themes such as religion, sexuality and mortality run through his extensive body of work, which not only includes painting, but also drawing, photography and collage.
Taylor Reudavey’s upcoming show, I Know How Hard It Can Get, at Moana Project Space looks at the experience of being a jobseeker on welfare support.
Sometimes you get to laugh out loud with delight in an art gallery. A Shape of Thought, the solo show by Mikala Dwyer at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, is so packed with wit, invention and energy that at times I caught myself emitting little happy gasps.
Sydney Contemporary is going annual this year. In its third iteration, the event is set to be “wonderful and varied” says Sydney Contemporary CEO and director, Barry Keldoulis, who describes this year’s line-up as the strongest to date.
Taken all together, Can’t Touch This is an ode to the provocative power and diversity of contemporary textile practices.
Women aren’t objects and girls have power. These are the overarching statements being made by two new exhibitions at ACE Open. Featuring video and ceramic works by Margaret Dodd, alongside an experimental documentary by Kate Blackmore, the shows collectively explore the complex relationships between suburbia and womanhood.
After three exhibitions, Leah and Charles Justin are handing over their floor space to Canberra-based couple Susan Taylor and Peter Jones.
Tastes Like Sunshine speaks to our changing relationship with food, the social attitudes which experiment with its use, the fashion which directs the way it is promoted and consumed, and its central importance as sustenance.
“There are no fixed rules about what form this exhibition can take,” says TarraWarra Museum of Art’s director Victoria Lynn of the TarraWarra International.
