Memory Shifts
May 26th 2011 02:19
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Works by Janice Lane, Sue Michael and Kveta Deans
Memory Shifts
Janice Lane, Sue Michael and Kveta Deans
Opens: 6:00pm, Wednesday 1 June
Concludes:Thursday 23 June
LightSquare Gallery
39 LightSquare, Adelaide
Adelaide-based artists Janice Lane, Sue Michael and Kveta Deans present an exhibition of work exploring the function of memory, its influence over our emotional and physical state and the role it plays in determining our perceptions of the present.
In Memory Shifts, these three artists explore their own and others' memories as a means of forging new meanings and connections. Rather than functioning as a video-tape recording of life, memory is something fluid, constructed and re-constructed as part ofour day-to-day experience.
"Memories can be as elusive as smoke, wafting away and disappearing into the ether. Yet,they are also the glue that binds us to our family and culture, at the core ofour identities and sense of self. Like nothing else, they are uniquely ours," explains artist Kveta Deans.
"It is in this very personal space of memory that we have found rich ground. Old family slides are dug up, negatives rescued,once-treasured objects and photo albums are scavenged. The objects and imagesof the past are resuscitated and breathe with new life."
Sue Michael is a photographer and painter who sees mementos and precious fragments in the mundane and everyday. Inspired by 35mm sildes from the 1960s and 1970s, Sueuses watercolour and photography to explore her memories of extensive caravan trips as a child.
Janice Lane brings resonances of touch and sound to her paintings, drawings and objects that have memories embedded deep within them. Janice uses old sheet music, Pianola roles and found objects that have triggered both personal andsecond-hand memories of others.
After discovering a collection of 50-year-old negatives from her father's archive, Kveta Deanshas used them to bring together narratives of childhood based on experience and legend.
In Memory Shifts, Kveta investigates the world between personal memory, the photograph and painting.
Janice Lane, Sue Michael and Kveta Deans
Opens: 6:00pm, Wednesday 1 June
Concludes:Thursday 23 June
LightSquare Gallery
39 LightSquare, Adelaide
Adelaide-based artists Janice Lane, Sue Michael and Kveta Deans present an exhibition of work exploring the function of memory, its influence over our emotional and physical state and the role it plays in determining our perceptions of the present.
In Memory Shifts, these three artists explore their own and others' memories as a means of forging new meanings and connections. Rather than functioning as a video-tape recording of life, memory is something fluid, constructed and re-constructed as part ofour day-to-day experience.
Ill be with you (detail) - Janice Lane
"It is in this very personal space of memory that we have found rich ground. Old family slides are dug up, negatives rescued,once-treasured objects and photo albums are scavenged. The objects and imagesof the past are resuscitated and breathe with new life."
Sue Michael is a photographer and painter who sees mementos and precious fragments in the mundane and everyday. Inspired by 35mm sildes from the 1960s and 1970s, Sueuses watercolour and photography to explore her memories of extensive caravan trips as a child.
After discovering a collection of 50-year-old negatives from her father's archive, Kveta Deanshas used them to bring together narratives of childhood based on experience and legend.
In Memory Shifts, Kveta investigates the world between personal memory, the photograph and painting.
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