Sarah Contos: Eye Lash Horizon
- When 27 Sep - 24 Nov 2024
- Where
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Address
Cnr of Oxford St and Greens Rd, Paddington NSW 2021
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Hours
WED TO FRI 10AM–5PM; SAT TO SUN 12–5PM
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Phone
(02) 8936 0888
‘Eye Lash Horizon’ is Australian artist Sarah Contos’s first major institutional exhibition, mapping a practice exemplified by process-driven and intuitive approaches to making sculpture, painting, and video. It explores ideas of the biographical, imagined, and desired in a sprawling, kaleidoscopic installation reflecting our relationships to natural and synthetic worlds.
Embodying visual references drawn from literature, cinema, design, and music, existing imagery and objects are broken down, added to, and reconfigured to create an elaborate theatre of layered narratives, histories, and perspectives. Works in this exhibition include animated videos inspired by German Expressionist theatre and film, crafted through manipulated artificially generated imagery. Furniture is repurposed with textiles and hand-forged aluminium elements, fusing gothic and science fiction references to create nonconformist forms. Contos also introduces a cast of painterly, enigmatic characters emerging from saturated fields of colour and jarring arrangements, their structure and psychological pulse alluding to suspense and horror often found within psychedelic cinema.
‘Eye Lash Horizon’ presents a complex yet playful space that reveals a scenic, dystopian landscape, a region to explore personal and collective psychologies and consider more broadly what it means to be human.
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Curated by Karen Hall
This project has been supported by the UNSW Galleries New Contemporaries Fund and has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body.
Tile Image: Sarah Contos, Moth-eRR (film still), 2023. Courtesy of the artist and STATION, Naarm Melbourne and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Warrang Sydney
Banner Image: Sarah Contos, In the Belly of Mary Shelley, 2023. Installation view: Gertrude Contemporary. Courtesy of the artist and STATION, Naarm Melbourne and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Warrang Sydney. Photo: Christian Capurro