UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
27 April / 02 June 2024

OPENING: SATURDAY 27 APRIL, 6:00 PM

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Gallery one

RAVI AVASTI
Human Acts (HA)

Throughout his life Avasti has received much advice on how to ‘be,’ often focussed on how to be more like the messenger, although generally presented in ways that served only to distance him further from ‘normality.’ The recommendation to “live in the here and now” was far from comforting to a literal pedant, and led Avasti on a path towards scalar invariance, perspectives and an enduring fascination with the friction between and around what is real and what is accurate.

Take ‘now’ as an example. ‘Now’ is a term we use to indicate that we are referring to a time that is neither before, nor after this current moment. But even if we creep up on ‘now,’ it becomes ‘then’ before we can get hold of it: if we look very closely, down to time quanta, it becomes clearer that ‘now’ remains a boundary, a moving nothingness between all things that can happen and all things that have; between all potential and all knowledge.

As unreal and inaccurate as ‘now’ is, it is known and understood universally; this convenient fiction has become a vital component in human communication. It’s not alone either: the description of an experience is often communicated through imagery, expressing what something was like rather than what it was; what it isn’t rather than what it is. However, Avasti suggests that through this form of description there is potential for communication of the ineffable. If we state what an experience was like in enough ways, then perhaps the gap left by the imagery describes what the experience was? 

Human Acts (HA) reflects one such barrage of imagery, and forms part of Avasti’s ongoing search for a gap that may provide some insight into ‘being.’

I ENQUIRE CATALOGUE I

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Gallery two

ARTHUR DIMITRIOU
State of matter

State of matter is a new exhibition by Arthur Dimitriou which focuses on the re-contextualising of discarded postage items that, have ended up in state of limbo. He trophies these objects through methods such as lost wax casting as he strives to critique and subvert the cultural associations a viewer may have toward such mass-produced commodities. To successfully juxtapose any pre-existing associations with these objects, Dimitriou selects materials that offer stimulating visual qualities. By encasing forgotten matter in aluminium and wax, he disrupts the lifecycle of said objects, rejuvenating their appeal to the audience. This new production and improved aesthetics elevate their perceived value and significance. After undergoing this transition, the works appear to exist within a transient state. Emerging from their vessel his sculptures can be viewed beyond an obvious moment in time. By transforming the readymade object from simply a tool to that of a blank canvas for interpretation and interaction from the viewer, Dimitriou emphasises the beauty that can be attributed to what we deem as insignificant when provided a new context and form.

Arthur Dimitriou is a sculpture artist from Naarm/Melbourne. In 2019 Arthur completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Melbourne Victoria Collage of the Arts and is currently completing his Honours in Fine Arts. His practice explores utilized discarded, once purposeful readymade objects that have ended up in a state of limbo. Through reimaging these objects and focusing on the beauty that exists in the form these objects take on he looks to trophy the objects through lost wax casting which he has been undertaking at Fundere Foundry.

I ENQUIRE CATALOGUE I

08 June / 14 July 2024

gallery one

GUILLAUME DILLEE
Dystopia (Selected Works)

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08 June / 14 July 2024

gallery two

Homage
David Doyle