ABODE
ABODE
OFFICIAL OPENING: Friday 5 April, 6pm
EXHIBITION SHOWING: 5 April – 8 June, 2024
MAKE A PAPER BASED DWELLING: Saturday 13 April, 1:30 – 3:30pm
BOOKINGS: Click here to book for Make a Paper Based Dwelling
Exhibition Statement
This exhibition explores what abode means to the three presenting artists. Their visual responses include video, sculptures and paintings. Questions they ask: is abode a place of comfort and pleasure, or of fear and isolation? Is it a space of escape and refuge or a sense of belonging? Is it a physical manifestation representing us or is it a purely internal dwelling space within an environment of impermanence and transience? Is it where the mind and body settle? Home can also be a site of disruption, instability, violence, and displacement for millions of people; a field in which history, politics, environment, and the mind/body and private/public dichotomies play out, and in which nothing is certain: where impermanence is the only refuge, our only true abode.
Abode will provide the opportunity for community engagement where visitors can contribute by writing or drawing their personal ideas and thoughts about abode, places, homes where people live and are invited to add them to an installation as part of the exhibition.
Make A Paper Based Dwelling With ABODE
Take inspiration from the exhibition and experiment with the ABODE artists in this paper- based construction workshop. Discuss exhibition concepts and develop your own ideas of abode and what it means to you. You may learn some origami or you might prefer to use other paper based methods to make a house. Click here to book for Make a Paper Based Dwelling
About The Artists
Caroline Huf’s art practice is in video, installation, and performance. She is interested in how a continuous sense of self is created through time, weaving in and out of inner thoughts, memory, subconscious, from stillness to agitation, and how that continuous thread of time may be disrupted. For Abode Huf has woven speaker wire and chairs to explore the voices and sounds of home that inhabit our body and memory.
Kati Gorgenyi is a Hungarian born artist living in Canberra. She majored in sculpture at the ANU in Canberra and her art practice is largely influenced by her professional background as a psychologist and by having grown up in the messy history and politics of Central-Europe and by being a migrant.
Gorgenyi is interested in how things evolve, how people and objects influence each other. Decay, transformation, grief, renewal and memory, intergenerational trauma are subjects of her art. She works with mixed-media materials and sometimes with text. Getting involved in community art is important to her.
Janet Long is a Canberra based multidisciplinary artist whose work encompasses outdoor and public sculpture, ceramics, textiles, using materials intended to convey ideas around the body/mind dis/connection, states of mind and buddhist notions of impermanence and imperfection.
Long’s work has been informed by years of meditation practice that seeks to reveal internal states and the metaphorical by means of combining found industrial materials and objects, cast objects, natural materials and contrasting these with soft sculpture and other media.