1 - 18 November 2018
OPENING WEDNESDAY 31 October | 6 - 8pm
OPENING WEDNESDAY 31 October | 6 - 8pm
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being | becoming is an exhibition curated by Lauren Castino and Alanna Irwin that brings together two artists, Meng-Yu Yan and Noah Spivak, who engage with photography as a fluid material, encouraging a palpable sense of changing between and moving towards. Sydney-based artist Meng-Yu Yan’s photomedia works actively reveal and conceal the hidden self to reflect on their Australian-Chinese queer identity. Melbourne-based artist Noah Spivak experiments with ‘growing’ photo-chemical materials over time to question the idea that photographs are past moments mummified for the present. Together, these works reflect on and reconstitute photography to frame ‘being’ as something that is constantly in transition. The artists act as tricksters and alchemists through their materials, asking viewers to question their belief in the finiteness of appearances and the medium of photography.
Meng-Yu Yan, ‘Bian Lian’, 2018, digital print on silk chiffon, 140 x 140 cm. Image courtesy the artist and Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney.
Noah Spivak, ‘chemigraph 1’, 2018, image courtesy the artist.
Noah Spivak, ‘chemigraph 1’, 2018, image courtesy the artist.
22 November - 9 December 2018
OPENING WEDNESDAY 21 November | 6 - 8pm
OPENING WEDNESDAY 21 November | 6 - 8pm
In this collaborative exhibition the artists explore how things we assume are of no value are deeply entrenched within our culture.
Joanne and Flin will bring in the residual trash and stuff that they have made and accumulated in the studio over the last two years with the question
“How do we move on?”
Joanne and Flin will bring in the residual trash and stuff that they have made and accumulated in the studio over the last two years with the question
“How do we move on?”
Image courtesy of Document Photograph, Sydney. Joanne Makas and Flin Sharp Awkwardly Nothing, 2018, (installation view). Foot Spa, Glitter Mirror and Penelope Gum
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