Alyra Bartasek, Jessie Imam, Rosina Prestia
To Know Your Fingers and Toes
3
March 2018
3
Mar
2018
23
Mar 2018
Gallery 1
To Know Your Fingers and Toes
Alyra Bartasek, Jessie Imam, Rosina Prestia
3
March 2018
3
March
2018
23
March 2018
Gallery 1
Bringing together three artists from varying disciplines, To Know Your Fingers and Toes uses sculpture, installation, jewellery, video and audio to explore the essential role of the body in the engagement with the spaces it inhabits. Bartasek, Imam and Prestia all use their own bodies, and often the bodies of the viewers, to create and activate their work in a way that extends the possibilities and reach of the body. In this way the body is a tool, a material, a mould, a site, a point of reference, and an (un)framing device.
Bringing together three artists from varying disciplines, To Know Your Fingers and Toes uses sculpture, installation, jewellery, video and audio to explore the essential role of the body in the engagement with the spaces it inhabits. Bartasek, Imam and Prestia all use their own bodies, and often the bodies of the viewers, to create and activate their work in a way that extends the possibilities and reach of the body. In this way the body is a tool, a material, a mould, a site, a point of reference, and an (un)framing device.
Jessie Imam
Imam works within photography, the moving image and installation to create works centred around themes of embodiment and the female perspective.Imam completed a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) from Monash University in 2014. She has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions nationally and has participated in international collaborations, as well as co-curating a number of group exhibitions. Her work is held in the Nillumbik Shire Public Art Collection, as well as a number of private collections.Imam was the awarded the Nillumbik Prize in 2015 and was the recipient of the AARK residency (Finland) in 2017 and the Laughing Waters Artist in Residence (Melbourne) in 2011. Her work has been reviewed in The Weekly Review (Melbourne), The Examiner (Tasmania), and featured on contemporary art blog sites such as Melbourne Art Critic and Isiiad. Imam currently resides and works in Melbourne, Australia.