Beneath the SurfaceBehind the Scenes
Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza, Of the Uncertainty that Comes from Dreams 2018 (still), video, courtesy of the artist
Beneath the Surface, Behind the Scenes brings into dialogue a selection of significant works by contemporary Latin American and Australian artists. It explores the ways that art can take our imaginations beyond the limitations of the known world and the veil of visual appearances.
The exhibition considers art as a generative force and as a complex form of language, investigation and theatre. Ideas unfold simultaneously in real and imagined space and time unearthing and giving rise to deeper forms of knowledge and prompting alternative insights and perceptions. Artists in the exhibition embrace instability, forms of erasure and new realms of possibility, critically engaging with unacknowledged or difficult histories, as well as impacts on our changing society and natural environments.
Participating artists include: Alexander Apóstol (Venezuela), Tatiana Blass (Brazil), Lauren Brincat (Australia), Christian Capurro (Australia), Elena Damiani (Peru), Marlon de Azambuja (Brazil), Matías Duville (Argentina), Gloria Sebastián Fierro (Colombia), Ximena Garrido-Lecca (Peru), Arturo Hernández Alcázar (Mexico) Nadia Hernández (Venezuela/Australia), André Komatsu (Brazil), Liliana Porter (Argentina), Marilá Dardot, (Brazil), Nicholas Mangan (Australia), Jorge Magyaroff (Colombia), Hayley Millar Baker, Gunditjmara/Djabwurrung (Australia) Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza (Ecuador/France), Berna Reale (Brazil) and Steven Rendall (Australia).
Included with museum admission
Christian Capurro, Young Man Against the White Curtain 2011 (detail), partially erased magazine page, rubber erasings pile, tabletop and tripod, © the artist, courtesy of the artist
Berna Reale, Palomo 2012 (still), video, ©the artist, courtesy of the artist and Galeria Nara Roesler – São Paulo
Steven Rendall, Cadaver 2009, oil on canvas, Monash University Collection, purchased 2009, © the artist, courtesy of Monash University Museum of Art and Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza, Figurantes (extras) 2009–14 (detail), 200 glass vials (erasings), newspapers, list, ©the artist, courtesy of the artist