27 July – 13 August
Opens 27 July 6pm – 8pm
“la casa nueva de dios”
Tristan Wong
In a world where the divide between rich and poor seems only to widen we see more and more people consumed with the apparent need to acquire ever growing amounts of land, capital, resources, power, money.
For many people money has become their religion, their guiding light, their reason to get up in the morning. And for the rest of us we seem to be ever bowing down to the banks – the new house of god – thanking them for their interest in our small personal savings.
27 July – 13 August
Opens 27 July 6pm – 8pm
“Promenade Health Spa”
Chloe Stevens and Virginia Overell
The Promenade Health Spa, a reflexology path that will stimulate organ systems and align your spine. The effect these paths have on the senses has been compared to climbing a jagged rock face with bare hands. The Project Space will function as a palate cleanser between Galleries 1 and 2 activating the viewer to be aware of, and focus on their body and its alignments, something that isn’t often engaged with in our daily activities. The effect of the rocks on our body is mirrored by the effect of our body on the rocks. Wear will be documented.
27 July – 13 August
Opens 27 July 6pm – 8pm
“Green Screen”
Chloe Stevens
In recent decades the influx in culturally diverse wellness clinics has labeled a style in both architecture and a way living. This desire for complete inner health is explored in Chloe Stevens’s video ‘Green Screen”. The flowing arrangement of rocks, lily pads and crystals promotes tranquility while generating a utopic landscape typical of Japan Zen gardens. As the replicas of figures perform varying movements of tai chi, a poetic flow of ritualistic gesture is created. The therapeutic relationship between body and nature and the harnessing of energy through tai chi initiates how forms of motion can stimulate a catharsis for our imbalances.
27 July – 13 August
Opens 27 July 6pm – 8pm
“Wise Blood”
Kim Henenberg
‘I ain’t saying I’m a prophet, no it ain’t like that but it’s like that.’
Enoch Emery.
Kim Henenberg’s latest work is in response to viewing Wise Blood, a John Huston film, adapted from a Flannery O’Connor novel. Intrigued by the characters destructive journey, this work looks at several in isolation. Taken from frames poignant to each character, the artist combines a sense of lightheartedness against the haunting realism of a bleak and bizarre, southern gothic storyline. Now detached from the celluloid, in gently distorted watercolours, new interpretations can be obtained.
27 July – 13 August
Opens 27 July 6pm – 8pm
“Variations of [minor] nature may have an adverse effect on levels of risk”
Tristan Da Roza
Spatial awareness can be prompted by potential risks involved with occupation; negotiating risks may be a productive process
The ‘performance’ of materials may be a means to inquire into protocols and assumptions that are constructed by the notion of authority
Allowing for architectural devices to be pliable can extend one’s reflexivity whilst inhabiting ‘space’
An imperative value of Western culture resides in ideas of ‘perpetual growth’. How does this culture deal with the potential of it’s own destruction and decay?
An event that is considered to be disruptive can be constructive by opening tangential approaches of viewing
Interpretations of instructional signs are contingent on a subjective position
