Subjective Objective Anamorphic Visions

28 June 2018 Comment

From the Trocadero website: Hannah Beilharz Anamorphic Visions The term Anamorphic refers to an image that is distorted, but when viewed from a particular angle appears normal. This term operates as a metaphor for the way in which white Australian culture both distorts, renders normal, and erases the complex histories embedded within the landscape. The artist explores an emotional and physical experience of the landscape that is tied to her own memories and childhood, as well as her position as an uninvited guest in stolen lands. In this context, the landscape emerges as an unclear vision, shifting within a dream-like space that is strange and familiar. Paul Kalemba Subjective Objective Subjective Objective is a multidisciplinary response to notions of nature, ecology and ontology in the Anthropocene. Using found objects to create still life photographs, the work takes inspiration from histories of natural science, nature based spiritualities, and ecological philosophy. The exhibition attempts to playfully engage with objects and ecology through the propositions of nature as non-binary, land spirits and the absurd. The compositions of objects collected while walking between nature and culture, seek to tell contemporary stories of ecology and place by questioning the perceived agency of objects and an anthropocentric worldview. This body of work was the result of a two-month artist in residence project with The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists in Reykjavik, Iceland. NOOKY Kirby Cassilli