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5/9/2007

4 exhibitions

Centre for Contemporary Photography - CCP, Fitzroy

Photography Portfolio I & II + Leica/CCP Documentary Photography Award + Antuong Nguyen + Thuy Vy

Photography Portfolio I & II

Melbourne International Arts Festival and the Centre for Contemporary Photography present Photography Portfolio I & II. Featuring work by internationally renowned artists, the collection was established to support and commemorate the long standing commitment of Merce Cunningham to contemporary dance and to his active collaborations with the visual artists of his time. Photography Portfolio I features photographs by Gregory Crewdson, Chuck Close, William Eggleston, Olafur Eliasson, Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Candida Höfer, Vera Lutter and Cindy Sherman. The more recent collection Photography Portfolio II includes the work of Darren Almond, Robert Gober, Richard Hamilton, Christian Marclay, Bruce Nauman, Ernesto Neto, Gabriel Orozco and Terry Winters. Merce Cunningham is regarded by many as a pillar of modernism and the greatest living choreographer.

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Leica/CCP Documentary Photography Award

Michael Amendolia, Cara Bowerman, James Brickwood, Stephen Dupont, Matthew Newton, Laki Sideris, Emma Thomson, Tamara Voninski and Tom Williams.

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 environmental activism, the ‘Aussie schoolies’ tradition and the everyday of Australian life. The winner of the Award will be announced on opening night.

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Antuong Nguyen

Love Lucy is a video composition of 942 photographs of an ex-lover that co-exists as an artifice that unveils something that once was, and a dream-vision guide to emotional resolve. Thematically, it explores the parameters of relationship trust, the mythic shroud of photography, as well as the embryonic guessing-game of memory. The moving photographs surge and swell with unearthly momentum, flickering just below our visual threshold for perceiving clear facial information. In effect, the viewer undergoes the gestalt processes of reconstructing a whole from partial information, but this whole can only ever be a fragmented abstraction of Lucy’s face. The title, Love Lucy, may well read more as a signature to the piece, as she—the beloved—entices us with fleeting glances; inviting us to ponder the difficulties of recollection and reminiscence, and exposing the fickleness of memory. Love Lucy remains volatile; racing like a quickening heart-beat, it conjures up the giddiness of falling in love, and the inability to hold onto it.

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Thuy Vy

Ancestors was inspired by the Vietnamese and Chinese tradition of placing framed portraits of deceased ancestors on household altars. The portraits are symbolic of the spirit of the ancestors, overseeing the household and protecting the family. Vy’s series is a gesture of respect to his forebears, and an acknowledgement of origin. Vy’s subjects are grandparents of family and friends, as well as elders from the Melbourne Vietnamese and Chinese community who were asked to look directly into the lens and photographed using low-key studio lighting.

Image: Bruce Nauman Studio Floor Detail 2006

Centre for Contemporary Photography - CCP
404 George Street - Fitzroy

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