Upcoming

Exhibition Program / Flash Nights

9 – 31 March

Opening: 9 March 6-9pm

Isadora Vaughan
with Luke Sands, Kieren W Seymour, Jessie Bullivant and Eliza Dyball.

FRONT GALLERY
We are that within which we operate

Considering the architecture of interaction enabled by the reorienting of the exhibition space towards the street below, We are that within which we operate is a conversation between process and materials, with a reflexive attitude towards site, collaboration and discussion in the broad field of sculpture

Isadora Vaughan is a Melbourne based artist whose practice explores making, sculpture, process and performance. Upcoimg shows include “Common Room” (group show) at Rear View, May 2012 and Previous shows include > (Greater than) at The Glasgow School of Art, November 2011, Studio Show at The GSA Sculpture Studios, December 2012, Slide curated by Susan Jacobs at Gertrude Contemporary, May 2011, Either side of the center, Seventh Gallery 2010, Sweep softly around the edges, C3 Contemporary Artspace 2010, Cyclical Extrapolation, Seventh Gallery 2010.

Rebeccah Power

MIDDLE GALLERY
Perpetrator

‘Perpetrator’ is a solo show that presents a series of works created by Rebeccah Power during her recent residency in Berlin. Based on archival images from the Imperial War Museum in London, the works depict the mug shots of Nazi women who worked in forced labour camps and concentration camps in WW2. The works also explore the notion of ‘women as perpetrators’, a concept identified by historian Anjelika Ebbinghaus who had an issue with the prevailing tendency to see the majority of women primarily as victims of previous and continuing social conditions. She believed that women are responsible for their own actions and aimed to counteract the myth of the ‘good woman’ as a means of generating female identity.

Intensely evocative ink and watercolour portraits are presented alongside grey lead renderings, and digitally edited documents and photos. Disturbing features draw direct links to dark moments in history. Rebeccah creates a dialogue that faces the issue of female representation by focusing on the tragic German Nazi era, when women became a key factor in the perpetration of crimes during the oppressive regime that resulted in tragic and inerasable consequences upon the imagination of society.

Rebeccah Power was born in Melbourne. She studied Fine Art at V.C.A and graduated in 2000. Her art practice focuses on exploring aspects of femininity and challenging the perceived roles of women in society by producing artworks that address issues of gender, identity, authority, and female power and control.

Mariana Jandova

SIDE GALLERY
Frontier

We find ourselves in a time of growing awareness about the world we inhibit. The journey we take from here will in many way decide what kind of future awaits us. Deep space has long held the human imagination captive but with the world in a global financial turmoil we have to ask ourselves is this the dawn or dusk of the space age?

‘Frontier’ is an installation reflecting on the human drive to reach the stars, which sometimes comes at a high price. Its focal point is the image of the International Space Station that becomes a symbol of this drive as it hovers just beyond the edge of the great big life sustaining bubble that is our world.

Mariana Jandova is a multi-disciplinary artist, born in Czechoslovakia, who completed her degree at the Victorian College of the Arts and is currently doing a postgraduate course in social work at the University of Melbourne. Her practice stems from her ongoing interest in the psychosocial dimension of human life, the intricacies of human perception and the way we create and structure the world around us.