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Image Economies — Victoria Todorov, *Untitled (Cicciolina)*, detail, 2024. Courtesy of the artist.

Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA)

Group Exhibition

Image Economies

With: James Barth (AU), Ian Burn (AU), Juliet Carpenter (NZ/DE) Róisín Berg (IE), Jeff Gibson (AU/US), D Harding with Hayley Matthew (Bidjara, Ghungalu and Garingbal), Ana Iti (Te Rarawa/NZ), Machine Listening (Sean Dockray [US/AU], James Parker [AU], Joel Stern [AU]), Bea Maddock (AU), Tracey Moffatt (AU), Sione Tuívailala Monū (NZ/AU), Ashley Perry (Goenpul), Joshua Petherick (AU), Scotty So (HK/AU), Sorawit Songsataya (TH/NZ), Tennant Creek Brio (Rupert Betheras [AU] and Simon Wilson [Kaytetye]) and Victoria Todorov (AU).

8 February—17 April

Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA)

Building F, Caulfield Campus Caulfield East VIC 3145

monash.edu.au/muma/

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Bhenji Ra dreams in dance

In Biraddali Dancing on the Horizon, now showing at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA), Australian-Filipina artist Bhenji Ra explores pangalay—a dance form indigenous to the Tausug and Bajau peoples from the Sulu Archipelago and Sabah in the Philippines.

Josephine Mead

Feature

Taking flight with Sorawit Songsataya

Shaped by the movement between histories and cultures, the work of Thai-born, Aotearoa-raised artist Sorawit Songsataya draws on mystery and plurality as a means of knowing the world. The artist is now showing at Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and Monash University Museum of Art.

Amelia Winata

Studio

Consuelo Cavaniglio’s tricks of the light

Consuelo Cavaniglia’s sunny studio in an industrial area of Sydney’s inner west reflects the artist’s fascination with light. Her recent glass works, now showing at Chau Chak Wing Museum, play with apertures, shadows, reflections and transparencies.

Jane O'Sullivan

Preview

Laure Prouvost meets the real with the ludicrous

French-born/Belgium-based Laure Prouvost animates her first major Australian survey with her hallmark absurdism. ‘Oui Move In You’ is a touring exhibition, and is now showing at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art.

Josephine Mead

Feature

The different strokes of Ethel Carrick

The paintings of Ethel Carrick—whose legacy is being celebrated via a new exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia—offer distinctive and poignant lessons in seeing the world.

Sally Gearon

Interview

Pat Brassington is mining the unconscious

Since the 1980s Pat Brassington’s images have entranced the psyche of contemporary Australian art. With a new solo exhibition at Bett Gallery, Brassington gives a rare interview talking about studying art in her thirties, psychoanalysis, and discovering feminism through a wives’ book club.

Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA)

Group Exhibition

Image Economies

8 February—17 April

Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA)

Suggested Reading

Bhenji Ra dreams in dance

Josephine Mead

Taking flight with Sorawit Songsataya

Amelia Winata

Consuelo Cavaniglio’s tricks of the light

Jane O'Sullivan

Laure Prouvost meets the real with the ludicrous

Josephine Mead

The different strokes of Ethel Carrick

Sally Gearon

Pat Brassington is mining the unconscious

Tiarney Miekus

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Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA)

Group Exhibition

Image Economies

8 February—17 April

Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA)

Suggested Reading

Bhenji Ra dreams in dance

Josephine Mead

Taking flight with Sorawit Songsataya

Amelia Winata

Consuelo Cavaniglio’s tricks of the light

Jane O'Sullivan

Laure Prouvost meets the real with the ludicrous

Josephine Mead

The different strokes of Ethel Carrick

Sally Gearon

Pat Brassington is mining the unconscious

Tiarney Miekus

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