Chau Chak Wing Museum

Consuelo Cavaniglia, seeing through you

Consuelo Cavaniglia's newest contemporary art project which engages the Chau Chak Wing Museum’s extensive collections and architecture.

Exhibitions

Event Details

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Exhibitions

Event Starts

Aug 23, 2024

Event Ends

Mar 23, 2025

Add to Calendar 08/23/2024 12:00 AM 03/23/2025 12:00 AM Australia/Melbourne Consuelo Cavaniglia, seeing through you Consuelo Cavaniglia's newest contemporary art project which engages the Chau Chak Wing Museum’s extensive collections and architecture.
Venue

Chau Chak Wing Museum

Location

University Place, Camperdown NSW 2050

Consuelo Cavaniglia has been commissioned to develop a major contemporary art project to engage with the Chau Chak Wing Museum’s extensive collections and architecture.

Consuelo Cavaniglia’s project represents the first time an artist has been invited to respond directly to the architecture of the Chau Chak Wing Museum. Cavaniglia intensifies the viewer’s experience of the interior spaces as they navigate the building, by colouring the ‘lantern’ skylight, and by intervening onto glass surfaces to create perceptual shifts.

In the Penelope Gallery, she has selected objects from the Chau Chak Wing Museum’s collection, including optical instruments and glass from the ancient world, which are presented alongside her own recent works.

The artist has also selected to display artworks from the collection by Lily Greenham (1924–2001), and Martha Boto (1925–2004). Cavaniglia celebrates these women artists and connects her own practice to theirs in a lineage of engagement with abstraction, colour, light, and perception.

Cavaniglia’s interest in perception extends to the ways that voices are represented within the museum. The artist has invited women and gender-diverse staff members to reflect on their experience of the Museum and its collections. Their responses create alternative narratives to the more formal voice of museum wall labels, reframing the experience of the Museum and its collections through personal perspectives.

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