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1/10/2003

Four exhibitions

Centre for Contemporary Photography - CCP, Fitzroy

CCP has a number of exhibitions this month concerning people: their history, identity and displacement.

Peter Milne is one of Australia's best known photographic artists. His new exhibition, When Nature Forgets (GALLERY ONE) is an exploration of the physical representations of the human form in historical and cultural displays. It focuses on dummies, mannequins and dolls in museums and historical theme-parks, the places where history and culture are recreated and presented back to us as entertainment.

Recently voted one of Australia's top ten collectable photographic artists, Deborah Paauwe's CCP exhibition, Beautiful Games (GALLERY TWO) represents Paauwe's first foray into video art. Beautiful Games explores female identity and burgeoning sexual awareness through images involving cascades of hair, a glimmer of gold, a length of ribbon. The filmic, highly directed quality of Paauwe's photograpy has been animated as the anonymous girls of Beautiful Games enact adolescent rituals of dressing up, grooming and dancing - interactions which pave the way for an understanding of the private and public realms of intimacy.

Buildings Are Lonely People, exposes the loneliness behind ordered space. Jenny Bolis has created beautiful black and white images of mundane objects liberated into worlds of symbolic and emotional intensity. Female figures slip between light and shadow, appearing stunned or frozen. Tree branches become like raw nerve endings against a white sky. Derelict buildings signify emotional detachment, while shuttered houses suffer quietly in suburbia. (PROJECT SPACE)

Keely O'Shannessy's Alice's Conversations in Cyberspace (e-MEDIA) is not 'Artificial Intelligence'. It is an interactive imitation game, an experiment in 'simulated' personality and conversation. Alice has attitude. She is a little crazy. A little confused. She is by turns curious, bewildered and playful. Her conversation is restricted to excerpts from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (1865). So you can say or ask her almost anything at all, but (like most people) she's got her own agenda, and she likes you to play her game.

Image: a work by Deborah Paauwe

The Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP) is supported by the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria, a division of the Department of Premier and Cabinet. The CCP also acknowledges financial support of the Australia Council, the Federal Government's arts funding and advisory body.

Opening Thursday 2 October 6-8pm

Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Saturday, 11am - 5pm

Centre for Contemporary Photography
205 Johnston St
Fitzroy Vic 3065
+613-9417-1549
+613-9417-1605

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