The light draws along…
20 April 2024 – 23 June 2024
Artist(s): Aaron Christopher Rees, Alex Walker & Daniel O’Toole, Cassie Sullivan, Danica Chappell, Justine Varga, Kirsten Lyttle, Pierra Van Sparkes, and Talia Smith
Location: Main Gallery
This exhibition offers fresh perspectives on photography from contemporary practices. Encompassing still and moving image, installation and sculpture, photography is presented beyond its formal traditions as concealed images purposefully eluding easy categorisation. The artworks in this exhibition cross genres, resisting a narrow view of how the photograph is usually perceived.
Extrapolating photography for its potential to manipulate light, anti-lens dogmas, spatial parameters, movement, processes, and phenomenological experiences, these artists utilise camera(less) techniques to blur passive spectatorship into buoyant new forms of engagement. At times, the lens is turned back onto the audience as a form of mirror, returning the gaze to reflect on upon past and present.
Image credit: Danica Chappell, Haptic Eye series (detail), 2022-23, chromogenic photographs on paper
