This week Memo Review publishes two separate reviews of shows in Melbourne and regional Victoria.
Below Philip Brophy considers the idea of our moving image subjectivity in his review of Christian Thompson's VR commission at the Australian Centre of the Moving Image, Melbourne's 'other' national art institution in the wake of t...
This week Memo Review publishes two separate reviews of shows in Melbourne and regional Victoria.
Below Sophie Knezic considers Arlo Mountford's current show, Deep Revolt, for its visions of death and museological disaster at the Shepparton A...
Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Level 8, Room 16, Nicholas Building
1 — 18 May 2019
By Victoria Perin
The 90-year-old Melbourne artist Isabel Davies is meticulous; you can tell from her website. On the internet, Davies has self-curated images of her work into a mighty retrospective exhibition. In her 'about the artist' section, she features organised binders of archival documents—neat, plastic-sleeved press clippings—as well as candid photograph...
Anna Schwartz Gallery
2 April – 1 June 2019
By Chelsea Hopper
In late November 2009, American artist Taryn Simon photographed objects detained or seized from airline passengers and express mail entering the U.S. from abroad. To do so, Simon spent five days, 24 hours per day at both the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Federal Inspection Site and the U.S. Postal Service International Mail Facility, both located at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) in Ne...
Curated by Anthony Fitzpatrick.
Tarrawarra Museum of Art
23 March – 19 May
By Rex Butler
The shadows are the first thing you notice. They're uncanny, haunting, impossible, technological.
Take Spirit House (2017), which has the one remaining wall of an abandoned limestone building—we are tempted to call it a mission church—casting its shadow under a cumulus-cloudy sky. It's an impossible shadow bec...
Centre for Contemporary Photography 6 April — 2 June 2019
By Stephen Palmer
Amalia Lindo's exhibition Computer Shoulders consists of three identical flat television monitors held at various angles by long black poles protruding from the walls and ceiling, and a single framed photograph of roughly the same size, mounted on the wall. The monitors display three interrelated videos, consisting of visual material which for the most part has been gleaned from Y...
Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia
1 March – 30 June 2019
By Giles Fielke
Australian photography is at an interesting moment. More than ever, it is compelled to respond not only to the present reality that the average Australian is now considered either illegitimate, illegal, fraudulent, or irreparably corrupted, but also to the fact that these same problems afflict the efficacy of photography as a documenta...
2 March - 5 May 2019
2 March - 19 May 2019
8 December 2018 - 5 May 2019
8 December 2018 - 30 June 2019
by David Wlazlo
"Compromised" was the adjective staff used to describe the experience at Warrnambool Art Gallery (The WAG) when I went to visit it las...
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