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21/7/2005

Four exhibitions

Centre for Contemporary Photography - CCP, Fitzroy

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Gallery 1

Lyndal Walker
Stay Young

Lyndal Walker’s photographs of young men in their underwear seek to celebrate the fleeting beauty and virility of men in their early twenties and contribute to debates about gender stereotype, voyeurism and the exploitation of youth and beauty. Walker’s photographs do not seek perfection or present more images of physical strength and distance. As such they propose a different aspect of male identity and express the innocence and vulnerability that is part of the human condition but which images of women can no longer evoke due to generations of objectification and cliché. The men are photographed in their domestic environment with no attention to hair, make-up or styling. The relationship between the model and the artist is one of the key themes in this work. The discomfort in some images is palpable; while in others, there is an implied intimacy.

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Gallery 2
Gallery 3

Narelle Autio, Paul Blackmore, Nigel Brennan, Rachael Cassells, Andrew Chapman, Nuno Da Costa, Simon Cuthbert, Tamara Dean, Melanie Faith Dove, Samantha Everton, Ashley Gilber
2005 Leica/CCP Documentary Photography Award

The Leica/CCP Documentary Photography Award is a biennial showcase of contemporary Australian documentary photography. Since the inaugural exhibition in 1997, this event has grown in profile and significance. It represents a unique, national initiative in support of documentary photography, providing a rare opportunity to assess the themes, styles and ideas that characterise this fascinating genre. This year’s exhibition demonstrates the breadth of contemporary approaches to documentary practice from traditional black and white narratives through to vibrant colour recordings all of which have been achieved without digital manipulation. Themes range from shocking war imagery through politics, death and the everyday of Australian life.

The winner of the Award will be announced on opening night.

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Gallery 4

Susan Long
Pass

Susan Long’s Pass opens a poetic space in which the interfaces of minimalist, abstract painting, photography and the everyday are subtly investigated and challenged. Long’s photographs of urban surfaces are shot to scale, with many of the pictorial and compositional elements of traditional representational photography pared back or discarded, creating a visual field in which colour, pattern and tone appear to assume primacy. Both mimicking and referencing minimal abstract painting, Long’s photographs create surfaces which seem to stretch beyond the borders of their photographic paper, fashioning an image which is both expansive and elusive, refusing the easily recognisable–and thus, easily consumable–concern with subject which pervades much contemporary photo media. Cracks in a wall, painted-over graffiti and industrial fittings provide a point of rest for our eyes, and a focus-pull back into the realm of realism and representation. Long anchors the photographs in the material world, inviting the viewer to reconsider both the urban surfaces depicted in the work and the act of looking itself (and, by extension, the act of representing). In this way, Pass enacts a kinetic tension between abstraction and representation which advocates a transformed sense of beauty and the real.
Jeff Khan

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Projection Window

Arlo Mountford
UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE–Alternate Reality

. . the reference point of outside objects had become too tenuous, and he walked, step by step, feeling his way ahead, bent down, for some reason motivated to continue in motion, however slow. It hurt. This, unlike the initial exposure, was a major re-adjustment of the reality structure impinging on him. His steps made no sound. . . Philip K Dick, Now Wait For Last Year 1975

UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE–alternate reality is a short animated narrative that follows two generic characters as they navigate a terrain made up of a series of platforms, colour fields and walls not dissimilar to a traditional computer platform game. The structure and aesthetic of the landscape is taken directly from Mondrian’s Composition in Red, Yellow and Blue from 1921. As the characters progress through their space they encounter both obstacles and individuals, the answers to these problems and their social exchanges consist of interactions with art historical events and ideas. The new historical lineage (dictated by narrative) and the outcome of these interactions provoke alternate directions and paths for artistic and historical interpretation.

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CCP is supported by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of The Australian, State and Territory Governments. CCP is supported by the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria and the Community Support Fund, and by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts
funding and advisory body. CCP is a member of CAOS, Contemporary Arts Organisations of Australia.

Image: Lyndal Walker

Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP)
404 George St
Fitzroy
Vic 3065
Gallery Hours Wed-Sat 11-6pm

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