Then, closer
In Elena Papanikolakis’s paintings, personal history sat side by side with ancient history.
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In Elena Papanikolakis’s paintings, personal history sat side by side with ancient history.
PICA curator Charlotte Hickson and Taiwanese-born guest curator Ashley Yihsin Chang have assembled four artists from each city (Perth and Taipei) for Unfolding Acts: New Art from Taipei and Perth.
Denny’s prognosis in Mine is grim: as he says, instead of farming sheep and mining the landscape, we are now concentrating on mining and monetising data, with surveillance capitalism claiming human experience as raw material for extracting, prediction and sales: “We are all losing the game and the game is faulty.”
Electric sounds reverberate inside Haroon Mirza’s pseudo-operatic composition, The Construction of an Act, at the Australian Centre of Contemporary Art (ACCA).
According to the exhibition room sheet, the word solidarity in the title was an invitation to “walk together.”
This is not an exhibition to digest quickly or casually…
Using machinery to gradually erode a half-tonne block of soil, Andrew explores the relationship between Country and cultures.
Other Suns is an ode to an idea of the future that has fallen into the past, a fond rear-ward glance at the aesthetics and cultural detritus of an age that was obsessed with, and optimistic about, outer space and frontiers.
Elaine Campaner’s photographs of multilayered dioramas reward intense viewing.
The exhibition features Henson’s series Untitled 1985–86– informally known as ‘the suburban series’ – and a new body of work commissioned by Monash Gallery of Art for its 25th anniversary, Untitled 2018–19.
A jeweller friend remarked to me that if you come across work in a jewellery show and can’t immediately recognise who made it, it is probably by Lisa Walker.
“Look at the screen, I’m on my way to make heaven,” gargles the voice of a bodiless cubist head talking on a loop as you enter Fox Jensen Gallery.
