An exhibition of moving image, performance, painting and object-based works by contemporary Australian artists, which together create a spatio-temporal and visually immersive environment. The fanciful leitmotif of ‘dancing umbrellas’, inspired by a two-channel video installation by young Melbourne artist Belle Bassin, introduces the exhibition’s performative and theatrical theme, and the playful surreality of many of the works.
In creating their imaginative worlds, these artists reference cultural artefacts and ideas as various as a surrealist play by Picasso, 1960s and 1970s counterculture and fashion, shamanic spiritualism, internet selfie culture and the romantic sublime as depicted in Japanese anime.
Heide Museum of Modern Art
Until 5 June, 2016
Melbourne
Minna Gilligan, Our Steps Will Always Rhyme, 2014, digital print on paper, 29.7 x 21cm
Courtesy the artist, Daine Singer, Melbourne and Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
