13th February - 1st March
Gallery One: Virginia Cummins & Bettina Willner-Browne

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Opening Feb 13th from 6pm.

Cummins and Willner-Browne use photography and sculpture, respectively, to convey a symbiotic relationship with the natural world and to mark the passage of time. Pathways, totems and coral-like formations serve as monuments to memory and desire.

Image: Virginia Cummins

The Canning Room: Linda Studená - A Mountain of Fallen Monuments

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Opening Feb 13th from 6pm.

In A Mountain of Fallen Monuments Linda Studená presents a series of works combining drawing, photography and experimental camera-less processes. The works reference and appropriate shapes of public sculpture from former communist Czechoslovakia between 1969 and 1989, loosely termed as 'normalisation' abstraction and aim to challenge the ideology of the style, opening new dialogues both personal and collective.

This series in part of an ongoing interest in monuments as cultural anchors and the implications of objects serving ideological and aesthetic functions in the community. Studená experiments with notion of femininity, materiality and form, and reimagines alternative narratives for the historical sculptures they depict; re-purposing their metaphysical potential by placing them in new contexts and in a different medium.