Install shot at Fatal Attraction, Shifted Gallery, Richmond, VIC. September 2008. Photo credit: Victoria Bennett
Detail of text that emerges out of the television snow in gradual succession
*Lyrics from from Yeah Yeah Yeah’s: 'Maps', 2003
As shown in
Fatal Attraction
Artists: CATHERINE CONNOLLY, CANDICE CRANMER, PETER FIFER, CARL SCRASE, SALLY TAPE & FIONA WILLIAMS
Curator:CATHERINE CONNOLLY
Shifted
Level 1, 15 Albert St Richmond.
3 - 20 September.2008
Artwork on invite: Fiona Williams
Fatal Attraction brings together the practices of six Melbourne artists in an exploration of the spaces between desire and destruction. Featuring works that investigate the idea of desire, attraction or intimacy becoming engulfing, dangerous, and even pleasurably terminal. From the attraction to abstraction and the abstraction of attraction, the works explore the emotional, aesthetic and physical risk of encounters that render longing lethal, from the literally fatal habits of cannibalistic lovers in the natural world, to the physical risk of the desire to explore and conquer, from the suffocating thrill of drowning in intimacy (or its loss), to the danger of the image and representation
See the Exhibition Texts page for exhibition essay by Tamsin Green
