In association with ‘Head On Photo Festival’, Stills Gallery is proud to present one of the most exciting new contributors to Asian-Pacific video art, Thai-Australian Kawita Vatanajyankur, and her arresting new series ‘Work’.
Endurance art has rarely been so pretty. Alluring luminous yellows, citrus greens and bubblegum pinks are distinctive of the artist’s aesthetic – a visual language of consumption and desire that speaks to a world of instant gratification and flattened complexity. However, this heightened superficiality lures you in only to confound your expectations – Vatanajyankur’s videos offer a powerful examination of the psychological, social and cultural ways of viewing and valuing women’s everyday labour.
Stills Gallery
6 May to June 6, 2015
Sydney
Squeezers, 2015, video still
Courtesy the artist and Stills Gallery, Sydney
