re-member
with Selena de Carvalho, Takani Clark, Georgia Morgan
Curated by Caitlin Fargher for Contemporary Art Tasmania’s 25th Curatorial Mentorship
re-member is about imagining across the cracks, filling in the gaps and stringing fragments together. This exhibition brings together three artists based in nipaluna: Selena de Carvalho, Takani Clark and Georgia Morgan.
Artists know how to make, and with that tactile knowledge comes the understanding that things can also be un-made. Artists are able to collect and reckon with residue from the past through assembling, visualising, performing and vocalising. In doing so they are un-making history, they are refocusing attention on alternative stories and reinvigorating what has been lost.
In a world where stories repeating the same wrongs dominate, it is an act of care to nurture the stories that may have been forgotten or lost. These are the stories that haunt us, the stories of family, home and who we are. To listen deeply to these stories is to unsettle what is known and reimagine what is next.
Showing from the 24th July - 6th September 2020 at Contemporary Art Tasmania (Tasma St, North Hobart)
List of works in order:
Takani Clark, Number Thirty Six, 2020
3 channel film, mirror, curtainSelena de Carvalho, Ready Made: Burn Out, 2020
For materials list see CatalogueGeorgia Morgan, Floating Signifiers, 2020
Plywood, concrete, bike locks, fishing nets, paint