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Les "Dreamkeepers" de Polixeni Papapetrou à la Stills Gallery
“These transitional places in one’s life are often the most creative, and as we grapple for answers and clarity what is often realized is ambiguity and confusion that reigns supreme. Like fairy stories, Papapetrou uses absurdity to make symbolic sense of world she struggles to understand.” Susan Bright - Between Worlds catalogu...
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Bestiaire à la VOZ'Galerie
A l’occasion de son inauguration, VOZ’Galerie convoque gorilles, rhinocéros, zèbres, lions et éléphants. Une exposition collective qui réunit dix photographes français et étrangers autour d’une thématique fédératrice: le bestiaire photographique. Outre les photographes de la g...
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Season10 - Stills Gallery, Sydney
In SEASON10 we are featuring a mix of unseen images and work selected from previous series by each artist, with an emphasis on summer and celebration.
Narelle Autio’s Seaweed Stacks is an intriguing image of sculptural seaweed forms on the beach near her home. The coast and water has been an ongoing inspiration for Autio, as is evident in her 2006 series celebrating bodies ...
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Polixeni Papapetrou : Between Worlds
The worlds of Polixeni Papapetrou are increasingly fantastical in this new exhibition Between Worlds. To understand the influences and references in her work we must look not only to photography (Ralph Eugene Meatyard and Diane Arbus), but more pertinently to painting (in this exhibition, Caspar David Friedrich, Hans Holbein and John Whistler for example). However new anxieties ab...
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Between Worlds, Polixeni Papapetrou
Depuis 2002, Polixeni Papapetrou photographie ses enfants et leurs amis dans des scènes d’extérieur, au sein de la nature australienne. Dans Between Worlds, les enfants portent des masques d’animaux et sont représentés en êtres hybrides, des créatures à mi-chemin entre le monde animal et humain.
De telles représen...
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Polixeni Papapetrou Games of Consequence
Polixeni Papapetrou
Games of Consequence explores the themes that Papapetrou has consistently explored - the territory of female childhood and maturation. This new work is based on childhood memories of unregimented play. Polixeni Papapetrou recalls the spontaneity and freedom she experienced growing up spending hours playing with friends outside the home discovering worlds beyon...
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