Stranger than Fiction
Wests Space, Collingwood Yards,
29 June - 31 August 2024
29 June - 31 August 2024
Stranger than fiction brings together artists engaged in troubling the boundaries between reality and fiction. Across film, sculpture, printmaking and performance, each artist employs material and narrative experiments to reckon with the impossible challenge of representing a singular way of portraying the world or existing within it, and the absurdity in trying.
New work alongside existing projects by local, national and international artists: Archie Barry (Vic), Teresa Busuttil (SA), Nicholas Currie (Vic), Andrea Illés (Vic), Rosie Isaac (Vic), Basim Magdy (Egypt/Switzerland), Rä di Martino (Italy), and Sammaneh Pourshafighi (Vic), curated by West Space Director Joanna Kitto.
New work alongside existing projects by local, national and international artists: Archie Barry (Vic), Teresa Busuttil (SA), Nicholas Currie (Vic), Andrea Illés (Vic), Rosie Isaac (Vic), Basim Magdy (Egypt/Switzerland), Rä di Martino (Italy), and Sammaneh Pourshafighi (Vic), curated by West Space Director Joanna Kitto.
Photography by Janelle Lowe.
Basim Magdy, Teresa Busuttil and Joanna Kitto at the 'Stranger than fiction' Symposium, August 2024, Collingwood Yards. Photography by Machiko Abe.
Read:
“...time poor dream pool, 2024, is a puzzle of 1950s Malta, embalmed in crisp blue resin and embellished with swimming pool tiles. Amid the pace of modernisation, gentrification and environmental crisis, Teresa freezes memory in a material reminiscent of the one constant encircling Malta; the Mediterranean Sea.
The once treasured object — now frozen in time — reflects the challenge of trying to maintain a static understanding of a rapidly changing world.”
Joanna Kitto: On Storytelling and Subversion
“...time poor dream pool, 2024, is a puzzle of 1950s Malta, embalmed in crisp blue resin and embellished with swimming pool tiles. Amid the pace of modernisation, gentrification and environmental crisis, Teresa freezes memory in a material reminiscent of the one constant encircling Malta; the Mediterranean Sea.
The once treasured object — now frozen in time — reflects the challenge of trying to maintain a static understanding of a rapidly changing world.”
Joanna Kitto: On Storytelling and Subversion