Feast / For Illusion Isn’t The Opposite Of Reality / The Coverings Project / Parallel Universe / Little Machine
Opening: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 6.00pm - 8.00pm (map)
Feast – Skinny Space- Brooke Wolsley
“For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.” Luke 12:2 Feast is a multi layered, multi flavored installation which encapsulates both the gastronomical and sensational pleasures which tenderly slide through moist, slightly opened lips.
For Illusion Isn’t The Opposite Of Reality – Main Space - Dida Sundet
For Illusion Isn’t The Opposite Of Reality is a cross disciplinary exhibition consisting of two bodies of work. Both explore traditions of storytelling and the construction of visual borderlands that embody both reality and fantasy. Down a Rabbit Hole (2008) and Performing Metamorphosis (2009) are waking dreams where the lived and the imagined purposely collide. Reflections on binary opposites woven together to create tension and contradiction between fear and desire, memory and fantasy, the light-hearted and the grotesque. Fiction and fantasy represent endless possibilities for crossing boundaries and discovering the vulnerable and uncanny within the safety of imagination. From a tradition of seeing the world as paired sets of dualities, monsters and hybrids are born to embody a fear of, and an attraction to, what is partly, or completely, unknown. If we can dream our dreams into being perhaps we also (by laws of balance) birth our own nightmares. Perhaps it is all an illusion. Despite our struggles and convictions, we are ultimately not the masters of our own minds.
The Coverings Project – Sound Space – Leo Greenfield
Parallel Universe – Foyer – Jessica Wong
Parallel Universe is a painting and drawing wall mural that explores the construction of our world and exposes social inequalities through the use of cartographic elements, ironic doodling and text.
Little Machine – Window Seat – Jodi Cleaver
A little girl tries to fly her kite while being tempted and pursued by both a machine and a magician.
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