Exhibitions 25 March - 17 April 2005

Five new exhibitions open at Linden

6pm Thursday 24 March 2005

Within Without in gallery 1 is a sculptural exhibition by Elisabeth Weissensteiner that draws on everyday forms, materials and techniques to investigate the ambiguities between inside and outside. The constructed surfaces, made from both manufactured and natural materials, with their spontaneously palpable aesthetics are metaphors for the vulnerability of the skin as a protective outer wall.

In her exhibition Shadowbreath, Helen Pynor uses photographs, embroidered and sandblasted glass and knitted single stranded human hair to explore memory and loss. The installation, in gallery 2, highlights the paradoxical existence between fragility and resilience in relationships, the human body, in memory and in life and death.

Transparent materials, digital print and sandblasting are used by Alexis Beckett & Julia Silvester in their exhibition Still in gallery 3 to look at the way the 'existing' Victorian architecture of Linden is linked to its original, and now non-existent environment. The aim is to evoke absence and the sense of loss that presages extinction as a metaphor for the breakdown of our relationship with the natural world.

False Idols by Simone Ewenson & Helen Anderson in gallery 4 is an exhibition of sculptures and works on paper. The works draw on humour and imagery from mass media to extend beyond their primary function as decorative objects, toward a deeper understanding of the construction of identity and its use as a commodity.

The iconic, consumer friendly, plastic shopping bag is the primary material used by Heather Clugston, Annemarie Schweitzer & Leanne Baker in  Cell an installation in gallery 5 in which viewers are asked to follow negative and positive instructions and enter a concealed and suffocating environment.

All exhibitions continue until Sunday 17 April 2005

 


image: Elisabeth Weissensteiner