Opening at Bus on 7 April 2009
Published: April 1, 2009 by admin
Filed under Exhibitions
Al Ouchtomsky, Joanna Mortreux, Kyoko Imazu, Emmet O’Dwyer – Second Nature
Bringing together works that examine the ways in which our culture perceives nature, Second Nature investigates the role humanity plays in influencing the world in regards to evolution, extinction and cultural manipulation. Second Nature draws attention to the ever increasing gap between civilisation and the wilderness. By using various media such as printmaking, painting and collage, the works become a combined response and a questioning of how we as humans fit into the natural world.
Dell Stewart and Adam Cruickshank – Thing
Skinny Gallery
Working in the same studio on separate things, Adam and Dell have produced a series of amalgamated things, made things and borrowed things glued to other things. These things are things in both form and signification. A playful room of experimentation at its most obvious but also an examination into the nature of things, things we make, things that are made for us, things joined together, and what these things mean. A thing is an object without specific name or form. An item, device, artifact, tool or instrument. You can find them in the supermarket, on the street, from outer space, from within your own blood cells, or at the back of your cupboard behind the shoes.
Kotoe Ishii - Lipstick ON/OFF
Sound Gallery
LIPSTICK ON/OFF depicts two faces of a woman endlessly putting red lipstick on and wiping it off. As she continuously draws and erases circles, it leaves smirch spreading over her face, looks like she got beaten up. While these acts appear simple and a bit childish, there are both sinister and sexual undertones to the performance. This challenges the notion of femininity, replacing them with an uncanny speculation on orifices and embodiment.
