Faye, 2019
Οι νέοι
Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
08.02.2019 – 23.03.2019
Οι νέοι is a photographic exploration of adolescence, nostalgia and the aesthetics of pedagogy. The Greek title, derived from Hannah Arendt’s seminal essay, ‘The Crisis in Education’ (1954), translates to ‘the new ones’, or ‘the youth’. The series draws inspiration from diverse sources such as foundational art history publications, outmoded art-and-design text books, 1970s amateur photography magazines, and from my personal experience as a student and teacher. Through the deconstruction, modification, and assembly of found artworks and teaching materials, these still-life tableaux attempt to hover between explorations of modernist aesthetics and the haphazard outcomes of experiential learning. The arrangements are captured ‘in camera’ using hybrid photographic materials and techniques, melding traditional and contemporary image-making strategies and processes. The titles are conjured from vague recollections of my mother’s high-school art students in small-town Australia in the 1980s; in itself, a meditation on memory and the female education experience.
Tanya, 2019
Karen, 2019
Counterchange 1, 2019
Yvette, 2019
Lyn, 2019
Nicole, 2019
Christine, 2019
Mandy, 2019
Jacqui, 2019
Tina 2019
Suzanne, 2019
Installation images courtesy of Christo Crocker and Gertrude Contemporary
Counterchange 2, 2019
Counterchange 3, 2019