Four Attempts At Disguise

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Four Attempts at Disguise


Four photomedia artists – Clare Rae, Jon Riethmuller, Unn-Therese Dida Sundet and

Daisy Watkins-Harvey – come together as graduating students of RMIT University’s

School of Art in the exhibition, Four Attempts at Disguise.


Memory, identity and desire serve as both a catalyst for their work and as the link

between them.


Daisy Watkins-Harvey's interest lies in both the driving force behind one’s desire to

preserve personal histories, and the objects, rituals, or relics onto which they are

projected. The personal archive is a means by which memories are accumulated, stored

and recovered. 


Working similarly with accumulated memory, Unn-Therese Dida Sundet constructs

“visual borderlands” out of public or universal iconography and narratives. His work is

focused on the juxtapositions that embody both reality and fantasy within our cultural.

Jon Riethmuller’s project centres

on the construction of personal

and public male identity. In

particular, Jon looks at how

individual men define themselves

and their masculinity. 

In contrast, Clare Rae’s

photomedia practice explores

her own personal experience

as a woman. By using herself

as the subject of the images,

she seeks to portray a lived

experience through use of the

body.

The artists are graduating

students of RMIT’s Bachelor of

Arts (Fine Art) Honours program.

Image: Clare Rae, Untitled, 2009, archival inkjet print, 60 x 60 cm

What: Four Attempts at Disguise

When: Tuesday, 17 November, to Friday, 27 November

Opening night: Wednesday, 18 November, 5pm-7pm

Where: RMIT School of Art Gallery, RMIT Building 2, level B, Bowen Street,

Melbourne



For interviews or comment: Curator/Coordinator, Stephen Gallagher, (03) 9925

4971 or stephen.gallagher.@rmit.edu.au

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