Show runs from 26th October to 13th November
GALLERY 1
FOYER SPACE
CATCH YOU ON THE FLIP SIDE
JESS HOOD
Created for the 2011 Abbotsford Convent Discovery Day
November 13th 12 - 6pm
Catch You on the Flipside centers on a camera obscura looking out on the garden that surrounds c3, with two accompanying works considering the differing temporalities that structure photography. The logic of the work becomes apparent through the temporality of viewing and will come to a completion in an event coinciding with the Abbotsford Convent Discovery Day on Sunday 13th November, 12-6pm. On the day, the public will be invited to have their photograph taken in the garden that forms the subject of the camera obscura. A total of 81 photographic portraits will be made on 35mm slide film, of which each participant will have a print sent out in exchange for their participation.
SPACE A
UNCANNY BEIGNESS
KIRSTEN PERRY
Kirsten has a background in Industrial Design, Fine Art, Gold & Silversmithing and Multimedia and likes to work in a variety of media. Concept development and the physical act of making are her favorite processes. Anthropomorphism and character design are a major part of the work she makes.
‘Small-scale production allows me to explore variations of similar concepts and allows me to group them into families to further explore their anthropomorphic qualities. My blog title ‘Repugnant Charm’ could sum up the nature of my work. I am interested in the balance between ugly and attractive. I play with bringing enough beauty to an ugly object or making a beautiful object a little bit ugly.
I became interested in the power and sentiment carried with jewelry and wished to continue this into larger objects. In 1999 I had cancer and became interested in the healing powers of meditation, spiritual totems and visualization techniques’.
SPACE B
MANCANZA / ARRESTING THE INEVITABILITY OF ITS CHANGE
ANITA BELIA
Mancanza deals with the themes of human absence and presence and its traces. In this work I enquire into the ephemeral side of human existence. Questioning how we fix memory to arrest the inevitability of its change and erasure of time. I investigate how the visual can reignite the memory; through the use of photography printed on the translucent skin like materiality of acetate and the impermanence of tape.
Boltanski speaks of the photograph as leaving behind an image that is no longer there – human subject that is now absent.1 The elusive trace of human presence.
1. Eccher, Danilo. Christian Boltanski. Milano, Charta, 1997. P105
PROJECT ROOM
STICKS & CONES
BIRGIT JORDAN
Sticks & Cones is an exploration of random and accidental mark making and an investigation of natural features within the line. Elements of nature such as tree branches, moving air or the surfaces of natural objects have been utilized to create marks forming the basis of images that depict fictitious scenes.
Whilst fictitious, the scenes are fragmented recordings of real life observations, memories or remnant feelings of natural elements in urban and non-urban environments.
GALLERY 2
TIME FRAME
c3 PROJECTS + PLOT MEDIA
Created for the 2011 Abbotsford Convent Discovery Day
November 13th 12 - 6pm
When you get the chance to go somewhere no one else can go – somewhere strange, old and sacred – there’s a gentle rush in your chest, the thrill of exploring what’s going to be around the next corner. The concealed and abandoned rooms of the Convent elicit this effect.
The public has never been granted access to these spaces so, upon entering the rooms, one immediately conjures thoughts of the ghosts of young orphans or spectres in black and white habits floating down hallways.
Despite the sense of complete physical abandonment, the layers, stains and grime that remain on all surfaces of these buildings provide a wider narrative to the hidden world that once was. To find meaning in these rooms you have to look closely.
This project was commissioned by c3 as part of an ongoing documentation of the Abbotsford Convent site and will become part of an annually created collection of works.
GALLERY 3
SUKI AND THE PAPERFOLD
VANESSA VAN HOUTEN
SUKI and the paperfold explores the intricacies of the social influence of the artist’s immediate and extended family on her character by way of a series of single frame photographed tableaux vivants.
These ‘living pictures’ are directly contrasted with photographed objects from Van Houten’s past; these objects or ‘artefacts’ evoke a memory of a person from her family.
Born in California, raised in the Bahamas and Germany and now settled in Melbourne, Van Houten is a migrant who, consciously informed by her experiences, seeks to explore identity, displacement and how her story relates to other migrants and their communities. Her project is motivated by a deeply personal relationship to the subject matter of loss of cultural orientation, networks and the basic ability to communicate daily in your first language.
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