Calling Image

A Way of Calling

EXHIBITION DATES:
Saturday, 14 May 2011 - Sunday, 19 June 2011

OPENING:
6-8pm Friday 13 May

Curator Melissa Keys

Artists Colleen Ahern (AUS), Susan Fereday (AUS/GER), Jason Hendrik Hansma (NLD), Dane Mitchell (NZ), Sheila & Nicholas Pye (CAN) and Ann Shelton (NZ)

a way of calling highlights six contemporary art practices that evoke, activate or engage mysterious forces, energies or sensations.

Curated by Melissa Keys and bringing together a selection of artists based in Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands and New Zealand the exhibition includes work in a diverse range of media such as painting, video, installation and photography.

The artists featured in the a way of calling exhibition; Colleen Ahern, Susan Fereday, Jason Hendrik Hansma, Dane Mitchell, Ann Shelton and Sheila and Nicholas Pye each respond to the whisper of the mysterious and the unknown. Full of strange sensations, eerie intuitions, and peculiar energies the participating artists chart an extended lifeworld that is broader and deeper than the one of our immediate and most familiar experience.

Exhibition highlights include:

  • an installation by New Zealand artist Ann Shelton from her new body of work titled in a forest that explores the complexities and instabilities of photography, memory and history. in a forest  is based on 'Hitler's Oaks' - trees gifted by the Olympic committee and Nazi- regime to gold medallists at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
  • three film works by Canadian collaborators Sheila and Nicholas Pye about two protagonists locked in an evershifting interplay  of desire, co-dependency, obsession, anger, repulsion, seduction and vulnerability.
  • a series of soulful new paintings by Melbourne artist Colleen Ahern exploring altered states of consciousness.
  • an installation by Melbourne and Wiesbaden (Germany) based artist Susan Fereday that explores the relationship between photography and death, spiritual traditions, mysticism and the feminine.
  • an installation by New Zealand artist Dane Mitchell that dwells on the mysteries of sleep and its relationship with consciousness and rationality.
  • a new work by Jason Hendrik Hansma  where the artist engages a distinguished astronomer and physicist to explore the possibilities for altering the earths orientation to the sun in an effort to bring humankind into a type of utopian expansive sublime.

 

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