EXHIBITION NUMBER 9

c3 opens its new show on: Wednesday, April 1st from 6 - 8 pm

 

Exhibition runs: April 1st - 19th

Read Robert Nelson's review:

http://www.theage.com.au/news/entertainment/arts/sardonic-images-that-confront-and-unsettle/2009/04/14/1239474872036.html

Front foyer

Shade of White

Kaori Kato

 

Japanese artist Kaori Kato’s studio practice explores the formal and conceptual languages of paper. Her work investigates the natural phenomenon and geometric forms found in nature as well as traditional Japanese paper folding techniques. She is particularly curious about how these forms that can irrupt or disrupt human perception. 

The installation in the front foyer invites the viewer to interact closely with a medium that is traditionally seen as a fragile form.

 

Warwick Baker

 

New & Used began as a collaborative book project by Melbourne photographer Warwick Baker and writer Toby Burke Hemingway. It stems from an exploration that the two artists made through the deserts of California and Arizona, in the spring of 2008.

The American South West has always been the Great Frontier. The birthplace of an age that has boomed and collapsed in even cycles. It is a broad stretch of desert, made accessible by the proliferation of the motorcar, and inhabitable by man’s drive to claim what nature denies him. The artists were captivated by its stark representation of the excesses, and inevitable decay, of modern life.

Warwick Baker’s photographs portray the faded and falling scenery that stretches from deep in the California and Arizona deserts, to the imperfect sprawl of Los Angeles.

Gallery 1 Space B

Body Armour

Di Ellis

 

This exhibition explores the value and wearability of the soft, body armour vest 

(An encumbering symbol of the protection and entrapment of masculine imperialism), when worn as sanctuary from the knocks (physical, verbal and/or emotional) of everyday life.

Ellis’s exhibition includes beautiful embroidered bulletproof vests and large-scale prints.

Gallery 1 Project room

Advertising Feature

Sandra Fiona long

 

It all started with an obsession with rubbish. Just on the streets and near the creek where she lives, it's everywhere, this form of backdoor advertising. Sandra photographed as many bits of it as she could with her mobile phone camera, and somehow it ended up as this: a slide show/soundtrack installation, featuring the beautiful voices of some fabulous children who sure do know their brand names. 

Made with assistance from City of Banyule and Jet Studios

Gallery 2

LOK

Storm Gold

Storm Gold presents a sequence of painted works that place the viewer within a vacillating paradox. The unfamiliar duels with the familiar in an ambivalent complaint.

His exhibition of constructed installation and paintings deals with the evolution of language- focusing on truths/ untruths, misinterpretation and the way history is recorded and documented.

Gallery 3

Convent studio artist program

April Fool

Marita Lillie

 

This body of work was both inspired by and closely connected to surveillance in society.  In a culture of spectatorship, reality TV and constant surveillance, where do we draw the line?  Marita captures random scenes in public places in Australia and abroad using photography and video, and then reinterprets the narrative by isolating the subject or eliminating their surroundings.  By manipulating the images she has the control.  

The works deal with issues associated with restrictions as a photographer, in particular, gaining consent from the subject.  The video works directly address surveillance and the association with the voyeur.  Sometimes every day scenes appear more sinister when viewed from another perspective.  The subject often reacts differently knowing they are being observed or photographed.