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1/4/2009

Four exhibitions

Centre for Contemporary Photography - CCP, Fitzroy

Gallery 1
MAC NICHOLS - MAC

Mac presents photography and photographic records as things we inhabit, as implicitly mental spaces like memory.

At its simplest level the exhibition forms part of a private family archive. As well as photographing parents, siblings, children and extended family for more than forty years, Mac Nichols has actively pursued, collected, adopted, rephotographed and reorientated original photographs inherited across generations.

Each photograph depicts a single figure or group of figures and is almost invariably framed with a particular subject in unambiguous view. Nonetheless, it is not the simple affects of family intimacy or biographical referents that is the exhibition’s narrative. Mac, rather, is formed around the abstract intensities that attach to photography; material intensities that refigure and re-emerge independently of the methodologies that surround it. Nichols pursues the sense that travels across individual images and photographic sources and understands photography as a process of learning and knowing.

The exhibition will be Mac Nichols’s first public exhibition and is curated by his brother, Jonathan Nichols.

Gallery 2 & 3
2009 KODAK SALON

Australia’s largest open-entry, photo-based exhibition and competition, the 2009 Kodak Salon is an annual event celebrating the latest developments in photo-media practice around the country. Supported by leaders in the photographic industry, the Salon provides an excellent opportunity to exhibit work in a professional, high-profile context, with $12,000 worth of prizes awarded. The 2009 Kodak Salon presents an exciting and diverse snapshot of contemporary, Australian photo-media practice. Visitors are also invited to vote for their favourite image in the Crumpler People’s Choice Award.

Judging Panel
Virginia Trioli Presenter ABC2 Breakfast News
Patrick Pound Artist
Naomi Cass Director CCP

Gallery 4
HAMISH TOCHER
OVERHEAD PROJECT (GALLA PLACIDIA)

In the on-going series Overhead Project, I create illusory spaces. These works derive from the tradition of decorative ceilings that use perspectival techniques to achieve architectural effects. Entering those spaces, you are surrounded by the combined effects of the real architecture and its illusory embellishments.

The pattern of the perforations in the ceiling at CCP suggest the starred vaults that are a common feature of early Christian chapels like the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia. The labyrinth pattern used in Overhead Project (Galla Placidia) is from the vaulting of this chapel. The pattern can be repeated infinitely; in theory the lines have no end. In this work, the pattern emerges for a short distance through the ceiling in CCP’s Gallery Four.

Previous works in this series have been figurative and expansive; Overhead Project (Galla Placidia) is more reserved and contemplative. With the dark space and the mirrored surfaces, the work is less like a grand chamber, more like a small camera.

CCP Shop Space
HAMISH TOCHER
ILLUMINATED BOOKS

The images in Illuminated Books are re-photographed pages of a book titled Roman Portraits depicting black and white photographs of Roman portrait busts. Onto each portrait I have projected another portrait, overlaying one face with another to create a superimposed image. I was searching for similarities, matches, discontinuity and unlikely connections.

Many of the white marble statues that we are familiar with were most likely covered in coloured paint when they were first made. Thinking about them as coloured objects suggests a different reading of the sculptures, one that makes them more human and less divine. Illuminated Books tries to re-enliven or re-animate the portrait busts, as well as re-colour them.

Night Projection Window
SANTINA AMATO
I WANT TO SWING ON AN INVISIBLE SWING

My work explores the child within, the playfulness of the everyday and our impulses to do silly things. I Want To Swing On An Invisible Swing takes place in a very adult setting: an office. Wearing a pair of size 16, cross-dresser, red-patent leather shoes, my legs are captured dangling from an oversized office chair, recreating the childhood sensation of swinging one’s legs from a normal sized chair.

Image: Mac Nichols

Opening april 2, 2009

Centre for Contemporary Photography - CCP
404 George Street - Fitzroy
Gallery hours: Wednesday ­ Saturday, 11am ­ 6pm

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