Exhibition

25.08.06 - 23.09.06
Main Gallery
Against the Amnesiac Lifestyle Showroom
Akira Akira, Julia Gorman, David Harley, Lara Merrett, Gemma Smith, Mark Titmarsh, Oscar Yanez. Curated by Alexie Glass and Jeff Khan.
David Harley's project is kindly supported by All About Graphics.

Against the amnesiac lifestyle showroom is a group exhibition that reclaims abstraction as a dynamic, critically engaged practice, ripe with the potential for transgression and change. Resisting the recent tendency to dismiss abstract art as the stuff of designer showrooms and modern lifestyle, the exhibition brings together seven artists from across Australia whose work challenges our notion of the gallery space, as well as the broader cultural landscape and our situation within it. Spanning painting, installation, digital prints, sculpture and wall drawing, together the works activate a vigorous dialogue, opening up a space of synaesthesia, slippage and resistance. Against the amnesiac lifestyle showroom is an immersive, sensory, disorienting and conceptually complex exhibition that speculates on the future of art and contemporary culture with both irreverence and an incisive critical eye.

Pictured: Mark Titmarsh, DSD 2005, acrylic on aluminium. Photo by Arthur Georgeson.