PUBLISHED February 12th, 2016 07:00 am
Her Letters: Shifting Perspectives In The Global Age Of Anxiety is a group exhibition by VADA featuring Lina Adam, Aylie McDowall, Laurel McKenzie and Rose Rigley. The exhibition is curated by Christina Arum Sok, and explores women’s artistic practices from around the Asia-Pacific region.
In Laurel McKenzie’s Dress-ups, bundles of calico dresses are slung together, their surface serving as a screen on which bits of naked female bodies, images appropriated from Western art history, are projected. The installation considers how culture influences female identity construction and how these influences chart shifting social conditions.
Rose Rigley’s I wrote a letter to my love and on the way I dropped it is an interactive installation that invites viewers to sit at a desk to sort through and contribute letters to lost loves. One desk drawer contains letters that can be opened and read, the other, sealed letters not to be opened. Whether intended for romantic loves lost, or familial loved ones no longer alive, the work seeks to find patterns in the way we deal with loss and to gain a greater understanding of what it means to lose–either by death or by circumstance–the presence of those whom we love and who loved us.
Her Letters: Shifting Perspectives In The Global Age Of Anxiety’s exhibition opening is happening on Friday, 11 March 2016 from 7pm to 9pm, and the Open House on Saturday, 12 March 2016 from 11am to 7pm at SHOPHOUSE 5. For enquires or to arrange a private viewing outside of these times, please call 6338 6192.