With and Without You: Re-visitations of art in the age of AIDS
- When 3 Oct - 9 Nov 2002
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Where
IVAN DOUGHERTY GALLERY
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Address
SELWYN ST, PADDINGTON NSW 2021
With and Without You is an exhibition that attempts to physical and perceptual boundaries between viewer and viewed. The works constructs AIDS as a compilation of visual revelation and invisibility, presence and absence, life and death. Incomplete bodies reside here – hands, arms, legs, skulls, torsos: an incompleteness reflecting the ways in which these bodies have been socially rendered and summarily fragmented, accepted or dismissed. Written histories often accompany these visible objects so that viewers play an essential role in contextualising the work and its connection to their own spectrum of experiences. Viewers must pause, read, excavate, bend and stretch (often uncomfortably) to develop an understanding of the works – works striving to negotiate narratives, rather than being invested with ‘predictable’ signs and symptoms.
Artists
Mohd Zamal Arip
Bronwyn Bancroft
Barton Lidice Benes
Chan Tuck Yew Ernest
Peter Cherone
Boy Dominguez
Felix González-Torres
Max Greenberg
Rebecca Guberman
Frank Holliday
Zoë Leonard
Edward Lightner
David McDiarmid
Ludmila Maliarenko
Ng Siow Lee Yuki
Scott Redford
Andres Serrano
Joseph Stabilito
Brian Gothong Tan
Felix Tan & Neo Hock Hua
Steed Taylor
Benjamin Trimmier
Mychaylo Vertuozow
David Wojnarowicz
Laurence Young
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Curated by Royce W. Smith
Sponsored by Sydney 2002 Gay Games


Title Image: Andres Serrano The Morgue: AIDS-Related Death 1992, Installation view, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney 2002.
Install Images: Installation view 'With and Without You' Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney 2002.