Featuring artists: Jingwei Bu, Emma Buswell, Kate Just, Shannon Lyons and Dhana Merritt
Curated by Laura Couttie
Rest time is an exhibition that offers space for slowing down, positioning rest as a meaningful and constructive form of resistance.
The exhibition emerges as a response to the capitalist, patriarchal, colonial and ableist systems that equate human worth with productivity. Against a backdrop of burnout in response to the constant drive for progress and production, the artists in this exhibition embrace slow approaches to making and experiencing art as both an act of defiance and of self-preservation.
The artworks in the exhibition pose questions such as: what happens when we reject grind culture and choose to ‘fill our cup’ instead? And how can slow approaches to art production and presentation – grounded in mindfulness, collaboration and exchange – help us imagine new ways of living, working and creating?
Rest time offers an invitation to visitors to rest, reflect and reconnect. Visitors are encouraged to spend time with the artworks in the exhibition and with the books in the rest space. The rest space is proudly supported by Darebin Libraries.
A series of free public programs have been developed to accompany this exhibition. The public programs are proudly supported by the City of Darebin’s Community Grants Program.
Don’t miss the exhibition tour for Rest time on Sat 25 October from 2pm – 3pm. Free to attend, all welcome. Click here to register your attendance.
Image: Kate Just, Self Care Action Series – Rest, 2023, hand knitted acrylic yarn, canvas, timber, 55 x 40 cm. Image courtesy of the artist. Photo Simon Strong
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