Upcoming | Alicja Dobrucka

Alicja Dobrucka. 'I like you, I like you a lot'

Welcome everyone! A new year has begun and Wallflower is thrilled to provide a sneak peak and video interview of Alicja Dobrucka's upcoming exhibition "I like you, I like you a lot" as our first post of 2013. We are looking forward to this and many other fantastic shows.

The London-based Polish photographer draws her inspiration from her home country Poland. In her artist statement she explains:

“My work is mainly about the familiar, known from direct experience. I’m a diarist, I work intuitively, photography, documenting comes to me naturally. I don’t glamourize reality, a certain raw quality to the work.

I’m interested in the journey - the conversations that need to happen for the work to develop. As an artist its very important to me that the work can move and be understood by people,  audiences not only from the fine art world but also the ones who have no knowledge of critical theory."

'I like you, I like you a lot' is a project about family and grieving and began once Alicja got news that her brother had passed away. The work opens up the personal space of mourning to broader affects and poses questions about vulnerability, youth, motherhood, and domesticity. Alicja's camera later returns to central Europe and her brothers youthful group of friends in a small urban-rural locality, as they find their way to a fuller, more mature, life.

Viewing Platforms | Radio review

This morning on Triple R (3RRR 102.7FM) the SmartArts program had a short review by Ace Wagstaf of our curator Kristian Hagglom's exhibition 'Viewing Platforms' at Edmund Pearce and we're pretty ok with the fact they used the term "Lynchian" in regard to the smashed up popup...

Check it out via Radio On Demand, the link will take you straight to the start of the (most important) Haggblom section at 00:40:57:

http://ondemand.rrr.org.au/grid/20121206094057

Detail | Intervals

Kerryn Sylvia, Untitled 2012, Polardroid Duratran in lightbox with coloured mount board, 29cm x 21cm

Continuing our exploration of Intervals from our current show by Kerryn Sylvia, we have two more of her nostalgic and personal images to present to you.

"Outside floats half a house hovering in that place, between, completed only by its shadow, warping and
shifting with the direction of the light. Inside, shadow gives way to the light … although the subjective
quality of each moment remembered also distorts and shifts and finds its voice in memories that form as a
stream of consciousness recovered from childhood experiences.

The exhibition Intervals explores personal dichotomies in time and space that began in 2011 as part of my
Honours year of study and continues up until the present moment... The passage of time becomes morphed with a warping of perspective that occurs between the child and adult self like a gap, interval, or dramatic pause within the realm of the ordinary and mundane." - Kerryn Sylvia

Kerryn Sylvia, Untitled 2012, Polardroid Duratran in lightbox with coloured mount board, 29cm x 21cm

Intervals by Kerryn Sylvia and the accompanying exhibition Hold from Kirbi Kenniwell will be at Wallflower until December 14.

Event | In Conversation

 

In addition to the solo exhibition "Viewing Platforms" opening this Thursday, at Edmund Pearce there will also be an informal "In Conversation" between Kristian Haggblom and Louis Porter on Saturday, December 1 from 2pm. 

This is a good chance for people to further understand the work in the exhibition and other projects through Haggblom and Porter's dialogue and there will be opportunity for questions from the audience. For more information on the exhibition visit: http://edmundpearce.com.au/

In Conversation Haggblom & Porter
Viewing Platforms
December 1, 2pm
Exhibition runs Nov 28 - Dec 15

Edmund Pearce Gallery
Level 2, Nicholas Building
37 Swanston St.
Melbourne

The gallery would appreciate if people RSVP through their Facebook event.
 
kristianhaggblom.com
louisporter.com

Intervals | Kerry Sylvia

Kerryn Sylvia, Untitled 2012, Polardroid Duratran in lightbox with coloured mount board, 29cm x 21cm

‘On the one hand shadow is opposite to light, and on the other, the very image of fleeting,mutable things...’

“The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols” (Jean Chevalier, Alain Gheerbrant & John Buchanan-Brown (translator))

This month at Wallflower we have the pleasure of presenting Intervals from Mildura based artist and educator, Kerryn Sylvia. Her work is informed by an interest in family, memory and the found object and her practice involves combining a range of materials and methods. It is well worth dropping by the gallery to see the pieces but for those with geographical constraints we will be releasing a series of the images from the show via the blog.

"Many of the images for Intervals started their journey as an artist’s book titled Memories from Under the Kitchen Table. These images were collected from the houses my parents built; one that was up for sale early last year (which afforded me the chance to return to the place after thirty years), and the other which I lived in during my adolescence (and impulsively collected a 36 exposure roll of 35mm film from as a last parting gesture as we were moving out in the 1990’s). These photographs have then been further manipulated to resemble images from another era using Poladroid, a free downloadable Internet program. This sets up an interesting dialogue between past and present image-making technologies..." - Kerryn Sylvia

Kerryn Sylvia completed her Bachelor of Visual Arts Honours in 2011 and was the recipient of the prestigious Rod Fyffe Award for the most outstanding La Trobe University Visual Arts Honours student. She works across several mediums that include sculpture, photography and installation/painting. Sylvia has exhibited locally and nationally including the Mildura Palimpsest Biennale and CLIP Award at the Perth Centre for Photography.

Kerryn's artist book: Memories from Under the Kitchen Table are $45.00 each through the gallery and also available as a free iPad download.

Kerryn Sylvia, Untitled 2012, Polardroid Duratran in lightbox with coloured mount board, 29cm x 21cm

Intervals by Kerryn Sylvia and the accompanying exhibition Hold from Kirbi Kenniwell will be at Wallflower until December 14. 

Invitation | Viewing Platforms

It is with great pleasure that we invite you to Viewing Platforms, a solo exhibition from Wallflowers' curator, Kristian Haggblom at Edmund Pearce Gallery, Melbourne. The show opens November 29 from 6-8pm with an 'artist in conversation' with Louis Porter on December 1st at 2pm

Viewing Platforms is a photographic investigation of the relationships that are played out in the Australian landscape between people, places and the environment and the subsequent interaction of society, space and nature. In order to do this, photographic documentation is produced at remote touristscapes and the in-between places that are connected to the uniquely Australian long distances to “journey” to these locations. The photographs in this exhibition include some of the encounters Haggblom has experienced on these journeys; a note seeking a lost dog on the back of a Carlton Draught box at a Northern Territory rest stop, a Crewdson-like mysterious circle at the foot of a slag pile in Broken Hill and a peeling wall vinyl on the window of a Mildura camping store of Scandinavian-looking backpackers pointing at a car park. Visually and conceptually, within these spaces of transience and awe the tourist infrastructure that is physically imposed over particular landscapes is considered a “stage” for, not only visitors, but also guides and other tourist industry workers. The imagery depicts how the landscape is contained for consumption and is captured from within the performance of tourism. 

Here is a preview from Art Guide Australia's November/December issue by Dan Rule:

Art Guide Australia Nov/Dec 2012 by Dan Rule.

Viewing Platforms will run from November 28 - December 15

Edmund Pearce Gallery is located on Level 2, Nicholas Building, 37 Swanston Street, Melbourne. Gallery hours are Wednesday - Saturday, 11-5

www.edmundpearce.com.au

www.kristianhaggblom.com